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Energy Efficiency in Housing: "No country in Europe can afford to sit back and say We've got this sorted" David Orr, former CECODHAS - Housing Europe President

Hear why investment in environmental sustainability in housing means that everybody wins. (Excerpt from video produced by Norwegian State Housing Bank, Husbanken and Snöball Films)

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Greening Social Housing: Case Studies from around the EU

POWER HOUSE EUROPE is an initiative coordinated by CECODHAS - HOUSING EUROPE:

CECODHAS - Housing Europe is the European Liaison Committee for Social and Cooperative Housing, a network of national and regional social housing federations including 4.500 public, voluntary housing organisations and 28.000 housing cooperatives. Together the 45 members in 19 EU members States manage 25 million dwellings.

CECODHAS - Housing Europe members work together for a Europe that provides access to decent and affordable housing for all in communities which are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable and where all are enabled to reach their full potential.

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The BUILD UP initiative is designed to promote existing knowledge, guidelines, tools and best practices for energy-saving measures in buildings across Europe. At the same time, it informs and updates the market about the legislative framework in terms of goals, practical implications and future revisions.

The Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign is a European Commission initiative in the framework of the Intelligent Energy - Europe programme, which aims to raise public awareness and promote sustainable energy production and use among individuals and organisations, private companies and public authorities, professional and energy agencies, industry associations and NGOs across Europe.

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POWER HOUSE EUROPE provides a gateway to:

Resources such as guidebooks, technical reports, tools for training and asset management for social, public and cooperative housing professionals to support the development of their energy efficiency and environmental strategies;
Case studies of both retrofitting of older properties and low energy new construction, effective partnerships with residents, ICT applications for empowering residents and more;
An on-line forum for information and knowledge exchange between practitioners and policy makers and updates on EU funding opportunities;
POWER HOUSE National/Regional platforms which gather enablers of the energy transition from all sectors to work in partnership;
A platform to easily establish contacts and partnerships between local social and cooperative housing providers;
Updates on development and policy discussions on EU legislation related to energy efficiency and renewables in housing and on the activities of the CECODHAS - Housing Europe Energy Policy work.

6. May 2010

Cross-country needs analysis of European Social, Cooperative and Public housing organizations

We asked local cooperative and social housing organizations throughout the EU what it would take to help them to radically reduce energy consumption and increase the use of renewable energy in the homes they build, own and manage.
We asked them to outline what they perceive to be the key challenges and the main obstacles blocking progress in this field. Over 300 organisations did take the time to provide feedback.

The representativity of the sample means that the challenges and solutions shared between the organizations will potentially cover the whole spectrum of Europe’s energy and housing issues in terms of financial resources, ownership structures, climate, stock characteristics and buildings traditions.

The needs differ greatly between providers depending on their size, location, legal status, in-house staff profiles; however there were a number of cross-cutting issues that figured highly in the list of obstacles.

Please click HERE to download the "Cross-country needs analysis".

17. December 2009

The Offer to fight Climate Change from Europe’s Cooperative and Social Housing providers

In partnership with energy producers, citizens, professionals & local authorities and with appropriate funding & legislation social and cooperative housing can accelerate refurbishment rates to achieve optimal energy performance in 8 million homes between 2010 & 2020.

Social and cooperative housing makes up 12% of the EU’s housing stock, if 4% of stock is refurbished annually, backed up with a sustained change in residents’ behaviour, this can help deliver 30% reduction in energy consumption by 2020.

The Copenhagen Offer explains more in details what is the potential and the missing strategies to reach a refurbishment rate of a million dwellings annually, representing the creation of almost 350.000 jobs across Europe each year.

Please click HERE to download the "CECODHAS Copenhagen Offer".

13. November 2009

Briefing on EU Financing Opportunities for Energy Efficiency in Housing

A needs analysis survey conducted within the CECODHAS showed that lack of sufficient finance is one of the main obstacles preventing social and cooperative housing organisation from improving the energy performance of their stock.

Deciding to invest in energy efficiency in the existing housing stock makes economic, social and environmental sense. There are a number of financial opportunities resulting from EU budget regulatory changes and new or adapted funding and lending programmes worth to be considered.

This briefing will help cooperative and social housing providers to evaluate the potential interest of new developments by giving examples of successful, innovative financial schemes already in place and by providing additional sources of information and contacts.

Please click HERE to download the "Briefing on EU Financing Opportunities".