Social housing providers plan for heat waves
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France’s Union Sociale pour l’Habitat (USH), which represents social housing landlords, proposed an emergency plan to protect tenants from rising temperatures after a hot summer.
The USH will focus on quickly installing shutters and ceiling fans in social housing units. Emmanuelle Cosse, the USH president and former housing minister, explained the organization chose “quick, common sense, and effective” solutions given the lengthy timelines for comprehensive energy renovations.
Marianne Louis, the USH’s director general, noted that radiation from windows can raise indoor temperatures by 5 °C, while ceiling fans can lower perceived temperature by 4 °C. Currently, 56% of social housing in France has shutters, but only 2.8% has ceiling fans. The Régie immobilière de la Ville de Paris (RIVP), the real estate agency for the City of Paris, has already begun implementing these solutions in some units, including installing adjustable shutters and ceiling fans.
