Who Pays, Who Benefits? Housing Inequalities and the Ecological Transition in France, Tested with Stakeholders Report on the ReHousIn Policy Lab #2

his report documents the second ReHousIn Policy Lab for France, an open public seminar held in Paris on 25 September 2026 to test, rather than validate, the project’s intermediate findings on how green transition policies shape housing inequalities. The research team presented the comparative work on nine European countries and 27 cases, together with the French findings drawn from four neighbourhood case studies (Orgues de Flandre and Clichy-Batignolles in Paris, Argonne in Orléans, Champs-Plaisants in Sens) and three scenario workshops. The interpretive frame treats tenure status as a distributive filter and examines multilevel governance and territorial filtering across three policy families: energy retrofit, densification and nature-based solutions. Five housing experts from Apur, the Fondation pour le Logement des Défavorisés, AORIF, OFCE and the École urbaine of Sciences Po responded, followed by testimony from tenants. The transcribed discussion was analysed by theme and stakeholder group, and each intervention was tagged as confirming, nuancing, contesting or adding to the findings. Positions converged on three orientations: articulating climate and housing policy with stable public funding, capturing part of the land value created by public investment, and treating social housing as an infrastructure with the means to invest. They partly converged on targeting retrofit aid at modest households and on strengthening local engineering capacity, and diverged on easing pressure on Paris through territorial planning. At the European level, the lessons concern implementation rather than instruments: the same instruments produce different effects depending on tenure structures, financing arrangements, land control and local capacities.Abstract breve in inglese (100 parole circa, per ResearchGate, Academia e post)How do energy retrofit, densification and nature-based solutions reshape housing inequalities in France? This report documents the second ReHousIn Policy Lab (Paris, 25 September 2026), where findings from four French neighbourhood case studies and a nine-country comparison were tested against the views of Apur, the Fondation pour le Logement des Défavorisés, AORIF, OFCE, the École urbaine and tenants. Participants converged on three priorities: linking climate and housing policy with stable funding, capturing the land value created by public investment, and treating social housing as infrastructure. They disagreed on how to target retrofit aid and on how to ease pressure on Paris.