Everybody deserves a decent, affordable, energy-efficient, and weather-proof home. We know low-quality buildings cause energy poverty and climate disasters. That’s why governments should finance renovations and implement SER (sufficiency, efficiency, renewables). Supporting the most vulnerable households with targeted measures and financing should be the priority on the new EU housing commissioner’s agenda. They should collaborate with front-line actors and support structural changes, finally making decent housing and sufficient energy a right and not a luxury. Fixing Europe’s housing will relieve poverty and mitigate climate change. There’s no time to wait for the EU’s new energy and housing commissioner.
No time to wait for fixing homes to relieve energy poverty and mitigate climate changeRead more
