Funding

Cities speak out for affordable and sustainable housing 

Energy Cities gathered its board for a meeting with the European Commission on the housing crisis

Housing rights: Verona’s challenges and solutions

Verona calls for legislation that allows cities to make targeted interventions to address the housing crisis

Local Alliance’s vision for a future-proofed EU budget: empowering local communities

The next EU Budget needs to be grounded in our local communities through a place-based approach and robust multilevel governance

Local Alliance warns: €86 billion EU Social Climate Fund at risk of mismanagement due to inadequate governance

New report highlights what’s at stake when national governments sidestep local and regional counterparts

Funding climate action in cities

Joined up financial support from EU, national and regional funds for cities and regions are a must for achieving Europe’s social, economic and environmental objectives

Letter from the Local Alliance to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen

Drawing inspiration from Mission cities: become a twin city to accelerate your transition

Join the latest programme designed to help cities replicate efforts from pilots of the Cities Mission

Learn on innovative financing for your local energy & climate projects!

PROSPECT+, capacity building for cities & regions, launches its final call!

NetZeroCities -15 million Euros to act as innovation hubs as they test solutions for rapid decarbonisation

Congratulations to the 26 cities selected to join the Pilot Cities Programm

Rethinking the criteria for assessing “sound” budgetary management at the local level to initiate the ecological shift

Municipalities and inter-municipal groupings need to devote significant, targeted budgetary resources in a context of increasing scarcity of public funds.