Case study reports on green transition initiatives and their impact on housing inequalities – Deliverable 5.1

Deliverable 5.1

This report compiles case study reports from 27 localities across nine European countries (Austria, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom). These localities span metropolitan regions, medium-sized cities, and smaller towns and rural areas, and they were selected to capture diverse combinations of housing systems, welfare regimes, environmental challenges and green transition strategies. The compilation provides clarity on where, how and why green transition initiatives have been developed over the last two decades, what has been their impact on housing inequalities, and how these can be avoided, based on qualitative research in the 27 case studies.
Each report investigates how three types of green transition initiatives — energy retrofits, densification (including brownfield redevelopment), and nature-based solutions — have been planned, implemented and experienced locally over roughly the past 10–15 years. The central concern is how these initiatives intersect with housing inequalities understood in terms of housing quality, affordability, accessibility, and security of tenure, for different social groups and across different territorial settings.