[Re]claiming Co-Produced Housing Dialogues – Session 2

Session 2:

Advancing housing and climate justice through co-production: retrofitting, just transition, and the environmental impact of demolitions.

Thursday, January 22nd 2026, 4-6 pm CET. 

The second session showcases examples of socially-just retrofitting and urban renovation projects that are co-produced with tenants and residents, ensuring meaningful participation and engagement, and avoiding the displacement common in top-down, market-driven retrofit schemes. It also emphasises the environmental and climate impacts of demolition versus rehabilitation, and positions decommodification as essential for a just transition. This approach implies advancing models rooted in the social and solidarity economy (including housing cooperatives and community land trusts), ensuring that climate action in housing,  through non-profit, democratic ownership and co-production mechanisms, benefits tenants and vulnerable populations rather than simply creating new speculative opportunities.

Flyers:

With case presentations from:

• Geert De Pauw, CLT Brussels (Belgium)
• Rodrigo Faria Iacovini, Instituto Polis (Brazil)
• Adél Csűrök, Eszter Úr, ACRED (Hungary)
• Olaf Grawert, HouseEurope! (Germany)

And commentary from:

• Laura Guaita, ICLEI (Germany)
• Camila Cocina, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, IIED (UK)

Facilitation: Barbara Lipietz (DPU, UCL) Lorena Zárate (Global Platform for the Right to the City), Diana Wachira (Habitat International Coalition)

Languages: English & French. 

Resources:

• • • • • • Slides of the session available in English & French.
          • Links of interest shared during the session available here.
          • Recordings of the session available in English and French.