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9.9.2025 Across Europe, it‘s not only the temperatures dramatically rising, it’s the rents, too. Tenants often live in precarious conditions and spend a significant portion of their incomes on basic needs, such as housing. Many of their homes are in bad shape – due to heat waves, they’re almost impossible to live in during summer and winter, on the other hand, means high energy bills for heating. Decarbonisation of housing is a necessity in order to mitigate climate crisis and to improve the lives of tenants already living in precarious conditions. The goal is to achieve socially just housing renovations without the costs falling on the shoulders of the vulnerable. In 2024, four organisations got together and took a step towards strengthening already existing alliances while also creating new ones across housing and climate initiatives.

25.2.2025 All around Europe people are facing an unprecedented housing crisis. The rents are rising while the quality of housing is decaying. People already witness and feel the climate crisis, often living in apartments that are too hot for the first half of the year and too cold for the second. Heating and cooling of our homes constitutes a major part of overall energy consumption - it is pricey and it fastens the climate collapse, as most of the energy used still comes from burning fossil fuels. Mass scale energy efficient renovations are needed, but they often lead to rent increase and tenants losing their homes.

9.10.2023 Housing, as a basic human right, is increasingly unaffordable and treated as an investment. This significantly affects the quality of life of people in cities and impacts on all of us.