The overarching goal is the identification and enhancement of existing instruments of environmental, social and housing market policy in order to enable an effective remediation offensive of residential buildings. The project is not limited to the technical level and integrates the agents perspective such as decision makers, particularly their motivation and their scope of action but also other stakeholder such as the role of the respective municipality.

The project follows an integrated approach of surveys, interviews and case studies with transdisciplinary character. Furthermore, a model is utilized to depict development path of the national buildingstock. Following elements are investigated in the project:

- An empirically grounded analysis of the living situation of the stakholders/agents and their values and motives
- Analysis of the technical an economical remediation potential of the residential buildings,
- Analysis of the local frame (demographic development, migration and interactions with the real estate industry, housing finance, craft, etc.)
- An agent-based household and residential building model in order to reflect the results onto the national level.

For the realization of the case study the cities Baunatal (HE), Dortmund (NRW), Ebersberg (BY), Hamm (NRW), Hauzenberg (BY), Homberg (Efze) (HE) are partner municipalities. Corresponding to the transdisciplinary character of the project the partners are integrated into the research process and shape it within their possibilities.

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