This open access book explores the environmental social and financial challenges of housing
provision and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how
market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy
attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus the book explores a range of
housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability
transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing
transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high
performing housing small housing shared housing neighbourhood-scale housing circular
housing and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges
policy makers planners housing construction industry stakeholders and researchers to rethink
what housing is how we design and construct it and how we can better integrate impacts on
households to wider policy development.
