C Change for Housing
Achieving Sufficient Affordable Housing While Tackling Climate Change
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is launching a new three-year programme called C Change for Housing, funded by the Laudes Foundation. This initiative builds on the success of C Change, ULI Europe’s flagship decarbonisation programme, which focusses on creating scalable solutions that drive systemic change in the real estate sector.
The Challenge
The dual crises of housing affordability and climate change demand urgent, bold, and systematic action.
While some decarbonisation efforts are underway, the housing market lacks a unified approach to integrate social and climate goals. Current methods risk deepening inequities by favouring higher-value assets and locations, leaving lower-income communities behind.
Therefore, an actionable pathway is required to ensure that adequate and affordable housing is delivered in a way that supports the net zero transition in a just and inclusive way.
Our Objectives
Designed to tackle these interconnected challenges in Europe, C Change for Housing will bring together industry experts to:
- Identify systemic barriers preventing progress in achieving net-zero, affordable housing.
- Develop practical, scalable solutions to overcome these obstacles, with a focus on investors, developers and managers of real estate.
- Educate and build the capacity of the industry through awareness raising and providing tools and guidance.
- Showcase best practice across the housing sector to drive action.
Our Approach
C Change for Housing provides a unique platform for effective, sector-wide collaboration. The programme adopts a top-down and bottom-up approach to identify and address systemic barriers—critical leverage points within the housing industry that can drive transformative change.
The top-down approach brings together public and private sector practitioners and leaders to identify the most significant barriers to progress, incubate ideas, and co-create practical solutions. These solutions will then be shared widely to drive sector-wide adoption.
While a bottom-up approach will ensure a just and inclusive transition process, enabling community engagement and building the ability to accelerate and scale-up solutions that will transform the housing industry.
More information
We look forward to sharing more information about the programme as it evolves. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please contact Sophie Chick, Vice President, ESG Programmes.
Related Programmes
C Change for Housing is at the centre of ULI’s PropTech Innovation Challenge (PIC) 2025:
How can we substantially reduce carbon emissions in affordable housing in a financially viable way?