Review and refine scientific analyses and findings
Partnerships for co-creation of knowledge and research
Empower cities to act, raise ambition, and scale implementation
Knowledge-sharing on a specific topic, method, and/or output
Awareness-raising on a specific topic, method, and/or output
Capacity building in climate science data and analyses
Dr
Urban rental housing remains an overlooked lever for City climate action. In East African cities such as Nairobi, the rental housing market remains a high-profile area for city interventions, as over 70% of the city’s building footprint is housing, and over 90% of households rent. This session presents findings from the Urban Rental Housing and Climate Resilience project, which examines lived climate risks across representative and diverse rental housing typologies in Nairobi. https://architecture.uonbi.ac.ke/basic-page/urban-rental-housing-and-climate-resilience-project. Through a mixed, participatory methodology that combined primary field-based data collection with structured stakeholder engagement, the research documents how five climate risks intersect with tenure structures and landlord-tenant dynamics. The session proposes an implementation blueprint that positions Kenyan urban areas for climate resilience action, and one that manages the sensitive relationship between rentier capitalism, urban inequality, and disproportionate climate change impacts. Altogether, the session will foreground a global debate on the presentation of rental asset markets as key adaptation levers.
Linda Gichuyia
Musau Kimeu
Minna Sunikka-Blank
Irit Katz
