English Housing Survey 2023 to 2024
English Housing Survey 2023 to 2024: climate resilient homes - fact sheet This fact sheet brings together evidence on how prepared homes are for climate change by focusing on age of dwellings and ...
Resilient Housing
The Resilient Housing thematic area focuses on promoting housing systems that are affordable, sustainable, and adaptive to both everyday needs and post-disaster recovery. This thematic area emphasizes the importance of integrating resilience into housing design, construction, policy frameworks, and market structures to ensure communities are better prepared to respond to natural hazards and ...
The Climate- Resilient Housing Initiative, powered by Build Change, is at the forefront of global efforts to embed resilience into the housing sector. We engage decision-makers and homeowners across the housing value chain and bring together governments, financial institutions, philanthropists, and innovators to ensure that climate- resilient ...
Housing environments are designed to provide comfort and protection but climate change has compromised the resilience of residential buildings. This study examines the impacts of climate change on UK residential buildings, identifying key vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies. A qualitative approach was used, involving ten semi-structured interviews with experts. A thematic analysis of the ...
The Global Financial Crisis was a huge external shock to the UK economy with particular resonance in the institutions that form the housing system. The seizing up of wholesale markets in August 2007 (the "credit crunch") immediately sent the mortgage industry into crisis and the housing market into freefall, and both these factors impacted ...
PDF Housing systems, their institutions and their resilience
The project focuses on two market-based institutions: the mortgage industry (UK) and the housebuilding industry (England and Scotland). This literature review examines scholarship and grey literature on resilience as it relates to housing systems and their institutions, crises (the GFC and Covid-19 pandemic) and organisations.
The UK Green Building Council's Climate Resilience Roadmap provides a more in -depth view of how the built environment and its subsectors can achieve climate resilience, serving as a powerful resource for sustainability leaders in the social housing sector.
Why all new homes must be climate resilient
To address these challenges, the provision of climate- resilient homes is essential. However, since 2016, approximately 570,000 new homes have been built in England without adequate adaptations to respond to increased temperatures. Additionally, the Environment Agency estimates that 5.7 million properties in England are at risk of flooding, most of which won't be protected by flood defences ...
Mark Baigent's How to Respond to a Local Housing Emergency offers a timely and strategic framework for councils seeking to strengthen their capacity to respond to such emergencies. While the guidance was originally developed to help embed resilience thinking into long-term housing policy, it also provides a powerful foundation for developing practical, coordinated responses to acute housing ...
