New pathways to provide affordable homes within environmental limits

A network-building project mapping the policy, financial and technical interventions that can provide affordable homes for all, while protecting and enhancing our environment.

Latest updates


💭 Workshop - Making retrofit work for renters

We recently held a workshop exploring how to prevent a net zero backlash from poorly designed retrofit policy in the PRS as well as hearing key lessons from Germany's energy efficiency program and the campaign for ‘Soziale Wärmewende’.

📊 New blog - Boundaries, Budgets and Benchmarks

As part of understanding what ‘within planetary boundaries’ means for housing, Arup has written the first of two short blogs setting the scene for how broader impacts can be translated into measurable limits for the sector.

💭 Workshop - (Sub)urban intensification and micro-densification

We held the first in a series of workshops to develop strategies for delivering affordable homes within planetary boundaries, bringing together local authorities, architects, community housing leaders and sector experts to explore (sub)urban intensification and micro-densification.

🏡 Share a case study

We’re gathering case study information to feature on this website and feed into our assessment of how we can **combine interventions and enablers to deliver lower impact homes that are affordable.

📄 Framing paper: Taking Stock