Cities’ advice for sustainable housing

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Posted on: 15 March 2013
By: mackene
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The URBACT CASH (Cities Action for Sustainable Housing) project has focused on sustainable renovation of social and affordable housing. The partner cities of the project have prepared a short guide. It does not describe the latest technologies available for energy efficient renovation, but rather covers all the other often overlooked aspects, which are critical for fighting fuel poverty, such as energy efficient renovation allowing the low income tenants to stay and low income owners to invest, cost reduction and optimization of the work through the association of stakeholders during the critical phases of the process creating synergies, building efficiency secured through the appropriate behavior resulting from empowerment. The guide has mostly been designed for cities and gives, for each topic, the state-of-the-art, key issues, in particular, barriers, gaps and solutions, and provides a set of successful examples from partners cities and it presents CASH project’s recommendations in the form of a declaration or resolution to industry partners.

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