Abstract: Abstract Housing plays a crucial role in the transition towards sustainability. Zero-energy or low-carbon housing solutions are key, but their success depends on their acceptance by the users. We propose a conceptual and an operational framework for understanding households’ residential choices as a base for an agent-based model, using the tenant as basic unit to populate it. We firstly conceptualise the decision-making process of tenants as a system. Secondly, we cluster the synthetic agents populating the model into typologies of dwellings ...
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