Project title
Incorporation of Households’ Needs Microdata in a Housing Market
Project abstract
My research investigates the UK housing crisis through the lens of transition engineering, examining how sustainable housing markets and systems can better align with household needs and wellbeing. A major challenge is the disconnect between household microdata and macro housing outcomes in the housing market, contributing to mismatches between households, and locations while exacerbating carbon emissions from housing and transport. Building on the Systems Transition Engineering Process and InTIME design methodology, the research reframes housing as a complex adaptive system, challenging current market and policy failures that disconnect household demand from housing provision. The research explores how household needs can be translated into sustainability-driven market signals that support affordability, equitable, energy-efficient communities located near essential services and livelihoods. Using household microdata, hedonic modelling, GIS spatial analysis, systems-thinking approaches and Data Exchange, Modellization and Observatory platform, the study aims to design a market mechanism that supports adaptive policy and market responses.