A social Green Deal for Europe

 
 
 

For a successful energy transition social acceptance and inclusion of citizens are essential.

Public, cooperative and social housing providers deliver homes.

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A home implies:

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  • Sense of community and neighbourhood.

  • Place ownership and pride.

  • Security, wellbeing and satisfaction.

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It is the neighbourhoods where people derive their identity from. This is where our housing providers interact with their residents, social services, the local economy and local authorities. 

 

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The neighbourhood scale is what makes a house a home.

 

We need to renovate district by district not house by house.

Wim Hazeu,

AEDES, the Dutch Association of Housing Corporations.

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Public, Cooperative and Social Housing are leading the Just Energy Transition

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Social housing promotes the decarbonisation of the energy system and the built environment by investing in renewable energy - through self-consumption mechanisms and the setting up of energy cooperatives.

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Social housing already drives
renovation efforts. Between 2001 and 2017 housing providers have replaced three quarters of oil-based heating systems with district heating or other more sustainable energy sources.

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Social housing takes a neighbourhood approach 

to problem solving, in particular by focusing on district level Co2 emissions and the promotion of net zero emission neighborhoods.