Our Project

The ambition of the CASH project is to propose new solutions and promote new policies for the sustainable renovation of social and affordable housing units in the European Union.

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CASH is a network of a dozen of city and non city partners upon the lead of Echirolles City. It seeks for new solutions to renovate social and affordable housing units, in order to improve their energy efficiency.

Development phase - The partners will exchange their diagnosis, experience and best practices on the subject during a Peer review consisting in joint visits to each city. On this occasion, CASH will produce monographies to be part of its Baseline study and complete the state of the art o nthe subject in Europe.

Implementation phase - CASH will materialize model experimentations in the volunteer partner cities. The network will finally produce a practical guide dedicated to European cities and professionals of homebuilding, though promoting the implementation of policies of sustainable renovation of social housing in the European Union.

Sustainable renovation of social and affordable housing

Challenges

Fighting against greenhouse gas emissions is a priority. In Europe, more than a half of gas emissions is due to the bad energy efficiency of buidings, mainly housing stocks.

Most of social and affordable rental housing units are aging and have low environmental standards. The homebuilding sector is now expert in building new houses and buildings of high environmental quality. But there is still a lack of experience and expertise to be stated regarding the sustainable renovation of buildings.

Our challenge consists in filling this gap... at least, launching the process!

Key point of focus

CASH will look for solutions of diverse kinds:

  • technics and technologies of homebuilding and energy saving (e.g. thermical insulation, production of energy),

  • logistics (e.g. management of waste),

  • sociological factors (common practices),

  • educative and prevention toward inhabitants,

  • financial engineery of such works...

A word from the lead partner

What motivates you to be part of the URBACT adventure ?

As a part of the european programmes URBAN II and URBACT I (as partner in the network Participendo), we have seen, in Echirolles, how the action of the European Union allowed concrete realisations and brought solutions to our citizens.

Trough the meetings and the exchanges with other European cities is developed common knowledge ans intelligence that are the catalyser of progress for each of us.

The projects developed in the framework of URBACT are essential for the cities and Europe. We are convinced that our point of focus in CASH, reducing the gas housing emissions and the energy bill of modest households in the same time, is one of these essential subjects.

Who would you like to benefit from the work achieved in your project?

In a context of raise of energy costs, modest households are the first concerned by the growing energy. They should be the first beneficiaries of the implementation of renovation policies of social and affordable housing too.

Each partner city will set up a local action plan to carry out such policies. Moreover, our local support groups as well as our institutional and technical partners will help to disseminate the outputs of our CASH project. It should give it a wider impact, to the benefit of European citizens.