Reuse and Enable Housing Opportunities through Municipal Experimentation. Lead is Energy-Cities. 

LIFE RE-HOME addresses Europe’s housing paradox: millions of dwellings remain vacant or underused while municipalities face rising housing needs, affordability crises, and land pressure. The project demonstrates that applying sufficiency and adaptability principles to the built environment can unlock affordable, sustainable, and inclusive housing, while reducing land take and embodied carbon.

Four pilot municipalities and their local consortia – Chalandri (EL), Mechelen (BE), La Rochelle (FR), Hrastnik (SI) – will co-design placebased transformation strategies rooted in sufficiency, adaptability and the New European Bauhaus values. Demonstration actions will include: adaptive reuse of refugee heritage housing in Chalandri, home-sharing and co-living solutions in Mechelen, densification paired with biodiversity-friendly gardens in La Rochelle, and reactivation of vacant municipal housing for vulnerable groups in
Hrastnik. The project, supported by transversal partners. 

In Vlaanderen trekt Stad Mechelen met Samenhuizen vzw en Labland vzw als directe partners.