In collaboration with 5 public housing providers

Dutch public housing providers need to improve energy efficiency of 2 millions of their homes, to meet climate goals. By law, to perform retrofit of a block, 70% support from tenants is required. This is a challenge, especially when retrofits involve rent increases. Together with 5 Dutch public housing providers we run a choice experiment, in which two subsamples of tenants get additional information on the financial respectively comfort-related consequences of retrofitting. An average tenant requires energy savings to be at least 30% higher than the rent increase. Comfort-related information makes people more likely to support retrofitting. Financial information, on the contrary, reduces the support.

The above figure shows the predicted share refusals, in baseline and with information treatments.

September 2021

Publications:

- Ossokina IV, Kerperien S, Arentze TA (2021) Does information encourage or discourage tenants to accept energy retrofitting of homes?, Article in Energy Economics

- Ossokina IV, Kerperien S, Arentze TA (2019) Verduurzaming van de huurwoningen: rol van motivatie en communicatie, Article in Real Estate Research Quarterly