Zac Taylor

New PhD: "From Housing Inequality to Sustainable, Inclusive and Affordable Housing Solutions"

Part of a pan-EU consortium and based at KU Leuven in the REFCOM research group of Manuel Aalbers.

As a past research group member, I can wholly endorse the team.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

This is part of a forthcoming special issue on "urbanizing climate finance" organized by the Urban Climate Finance Network. Papers from several other colleagues are already online now at the Journal of Urban Affairs.

Financing “climate-proof” housing? The premises and pitfalls of PACE finance in Florida Amidst growing concerns about climate risks to the U.S. housing markets, strategies to physically retrofit homes are gaining attention—including within debates over how to resolve intersecting cris....

Happy Friday, happy publication day. Excited to share new work with Sarah Knuth. We explore the premise and pitfalls PACE finance for climate adaptive retrofitting in Florida, paying special attention to risks of unaffordability and financial breakdown.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For the third time in seven years, I'm preparing to talk about urban climate risk a major academic conference while my hometown is under threat from a major hurricane. Talk about uncomfortable knowledge.

And Thursday at 9AM, super excited to discuss John Hogan Morris & Hannah Collins's fantastic new book, "(Mis) Managing Macroprudential Expectations: How Central Banks Govern Financial and Climate Tail Risks," with Sarah Knuth and Albina Gibadullina.

Really looking forward to RGS next week! Let's catch up (or meet). You can find me in two sets of sessions. On Friday from 2-5PM, I'm co-hosting (w/ Savannah Cox and Stephen Collier) a session on finance, risk rating, and "changing urban riskscapes" -- details below.