Project Director: Dr Rachel Macrorie
Project Duration: 2023-2024
Just Retrofit! builds on research conducted by CRESR as part of the South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre to investigate the governance of housing retrofit for a just regional net zero energy transition. The project has the following objectives:
- To critically examine the discourses and paradigms associated with proposed housing retrofit initiatives in SY.
- To develop an analytical framework to understand how a just transition to housing decarbonisation through retrofit can be governed at scale to transform working lives and contribute to thriving communities.
- To examine the different organisational structures and actor coalitions being developed to orchestrate a scaled housing retrofit programme and investigate political tensions arising.
- To map and typologise the tools, techniques and delivery mechanisms being trialled meet the scaled retrofit challenge.
- Draw on feminist place-based economic geographies support policy development of the SY regional retrofit programme, focusing on potential to deliver quality work, thriving livelihoods and communities, and seek to address enduring regional inequalities.
