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Fuel poverty in residential housing: Providing financial support vs. combatting substandard housing

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Between 50 and 125 million Europeans are unable to afford the energy needed for adequate heating, cooking, light, and use of appliances in the home. Tackling fuel poverty has thus become a public policy challenge. In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of social energy subsidies and social housing to reduce fuel poverty. The literature reports that rising fuel prices, low incomes, and energy-inefficient housing are the main causes of fuel poverty. Existing public policies focus mainly on price-and income-based measures to reduce fuel poverty, such as social energy subsidies. This type of policy is palliative as it does not permit to sustainably eradicate fuel poverty. Other policies aim to encourage renovation in order to improve energy efficiency. Those policies are curative as they sustainably reduce one cause of fuel poverty : energy inefficiency. In this paper, we focus on another public policy to tackle fuel poverty : social housing. We believe that this policy could be preventive, as the literature reports the better energy efficiency of social housing. We use matching methods and find that living in social housing decreases fuel poverty by 5.4% to 9.1%. On the contrary, social energy subsidies have no effect on fuel poverty.
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hal-02145950 , version 1 (03-06-2019)

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Dorothée Charlier, Bérangère Legendre, Anna Risch. Fuel poverty in residential housing: Providing financial support vs. combatting substandard housing. Applied Economics, 2019, 51 (49), pp.1-19. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2019.1613501⟩. ⟨hal-02145950⟩
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