The sixth lecture in the ReHousIn Lecture Series focuses on the green transition in France, unpacking energy retrofitting and housing inequalities.
This lecture, delivered by Marco Cremaschi, Tomasso Vitale, Antoine Guironnet and Frederica Rotondo from Sciences Po, explores French trends in housing inequalities and environmental energy policies in Paris, Orleans and Sen. The lecture’s focus on Paris unpacks the relationship between energy retrofitting and housing inequality, discussing mechanisms such as governance dynamics, affordability and neighbourhood change.
The lecture illustrate a clearer understanding of the multidimensional nature of housing inequalities in France. For example, when it comes to retrofitting, opportunities as well as risks are present. Retrofitting can reduce household energy expenses and improve comfort, while supporting local community engagement. At the same time, costs are distributed unequally between tenants and owners and can displace renters. Housing and green policies in France, outcomes related to urban plans such as the Bioclimatic Urban Plan (PLUb), and how housing retrofitting can present challenges to housing costs for vulnerable populations.
Many factors ultimately shape the context of housing inequalities in France, such as socioeconomic conditions and trends, housing system and welfare regimes, evolving environmental and energy policies, local conditions and governance arrangements and political priorities and decision-making. Watch the ReHousin French lecture to learn more about how this context shapes realities of the French housing market.
The full lecture recording is available on our Youtube channel and offers in depth discussion in relation to the project’s broader findings from comparative research across nine European countries.
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