People and Communities
This chapter addresses Social Innovation. It describes conditions, methods, and procedures to optimize engagement and strengthen people’s and the community’s position in affordable energy renovations in buildings and on the district level. We focus on the lower- and middle-income occupants being tenants of not-for-profit or public housing associations and owner / occupiers in apartment buildings.
For the renovation of affordable housing, social innovation refers to using alternative social practices or changes in the governance of projects through citizen participation in local communities and group initiatives. Social innovation also includes developing new and unconventional solutions for financing, and community engagement, and utilizing new technologies and methods for construction, maintenance, and management. Social innovation may also involve building stronger partnerships between the government, the private sector, and community organizations to create more inclusive and equitable communities.
Choose the topic you want to explore:
- Supporting residents during renovation
- Engaging with occupants and co-designing renovation approaches
- Promoting co-ownership of dwellings and utilities
- Utilising mediation techniques
- Renovating multi-apartment blocks
- Neighbourhoods of tomorrow
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