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"This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people-based and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good practices of city-led strategies for affordable housing provision, as well as individual projects capitalising on partnerships to build mixed-income housing and revitalise neighbourhoods. Twenty chapters provide unique perspectives on diversity of approaches in seven countries and fifteen cities in Europe, Canada and the USA. Combining academic rigour with knowledge from critical practice, the book uses robust empirical analysis and evidence-based case study research to illustrate the potential of affordable housing partnerships for mixed-income, socially inclusive neighbourhoods as a model to rebuild cities. Cities and Affordable Housing is an essential interdisciplinary collection on planning and design that will be of great interest to scholars, urban professionals, architects, planners and policy-makers interested in housing, urban planning and city building"--

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Energy Efficiency Retrofits and Policy Design for Sustainable Affordable Housing -- 1.1 The Need for Transformative Change in Social Housing -- 1.2 Research Objectives -- 1.3 Theoretical and Analytical Framework -- 1.3.1 Housing Policy Design Continuum -- 1.3.2 Analytical Framework -- 1.4 Research Methodology -- 1.5 Organisation of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Design of Energy Efficiency Programs in Canada: A Social Housing Lens -- 2.1 The Energy Housing Nexus -- 2.2 Energy Efficiency Programs in the Social Housing Sector -- 2.2.1 Canada Economic Action Plan Energy Retrofit Programs -- 2.2.2 A New Wave of Energy Retrofit Programs -- 2.3 The Social Housing Sector in Canada -- 2.3.1 Path Dependency -- 2.3.2 The Housing Continuum -- 2.4 Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 3: Beyond Energy Efficiency: Investing in Social and Affordable Housing in Vancouver -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Policy Framework for Energy Efficiency Retrofits in the Social Housing Sector -- 3.3 Energy Intensity in BC Social Housing -- 3.4 Implementation Framework -- 3.5 Vancouver Case Studies Overview: BC Housing Projects -- 3.5.1 Types of Retrofits Completed -- 3.5.2 Energy and Cost Saving Metrics -- 3.6 Vancouver Case Studies Overview: Retrofits in Housing Coops -- 3.7 Concluding Comments -- 3.7.1 Program Successes -- 3.7.2 Program Challenges -- References -- Chapter 4: Energy Efficiency Retrofits in Social and Affordable Housing in Toronto -- 4.1 Introduction, Objectives and Methodology -- 4.2 Social Housing in Toronto -- 4.3 Funding Programs and Mechanisms -- 4.3.1 Social Housing Renovations and Retrofit Program -- 4.3.2 Federally Administered Retrofit Program -- 4.3.3 Renewable Energy Initiative.