We are facing on the twenty-first century Andalusian cities significant
changes in their social and economic structure, which proves the need of researching on
policies that assure the right to housing. In the near future, we will find a difficult
socioeconomic situation: the population of our cities and neighbourhoods will be
composed of a majority of elderly people that will mostly live in obsolete dwellings that
are not adapted to their housing requirements, considering moreover the aggravating
fact that they will not be able to afford a refurbishment, upgrading or adaptation of the
buildings. The public administration will not have enough resources to subsidise those
works, neither will it be able to increase the offer of specialised housing to meet the
expected demand in the medium and long term. In order to intervene in neighbourhoods
through viable, efficient and adjusted to social, political and economic reality
operations, the research team (Re)Programa (TEP-954), suggest the need for an
integrated, multidisciplinary and multilevel analysis that considers four basic pillars,
which are conservation of buildings, socio-economic situation, policies for energy
saving and financing and management. We expose and analyse the objectives, criteria,
analysis methodology, the case studies and the assessment tools developed in the
project “(Re) habitation+ (Re) generation+ (Re) programming. Renovation and
sustainable management of the Andalusian building stock. Management of living urban
environments from an active ageing, gender and urban liveability approach”, funded by
the Department of Public Works of the Government of Andalusia, between 2013 and
2015.
Keywords: Ageing, building renovation, built environment, CO2 savings,
collective housing, economic levels, energy efficiency, financing tools,
gerontology, guidelines, habitability, life satisfaction, life-quality, management,
neighbourhoods, protocol, questionnaires, refurbishment, south Europe,
sustainable development.
