Green block playbook

Step-by-step guide to a successful lakógyűlés vote

Calling a lakógyűlés (residents' meeting) sounds bureaucratic until you have a playbook: quorum checklist, sample agenda, three-slide energy savings story, and a contractor comparison table neighbours can skim in five minutes. KÉK (Contemporary Architecture Centre) and Energiaklub both run workshops where blocks learn from retrofitted estates across Central Europe.

What you can do

• First-time organisers: copy the playbook, date, quorum, two topics max (insulation + windows)
• School councils: join 14+ Budapest urban walks and bring heat-poverty maps back to your block
• Architect allies: invite a KÉK volunteer to sketch façade options before the vote

How it works

Hungarian condominium law sets notice periods and voting thresholds. Pair legal basics with visual before/after photos from cities like Székesfehérvár where panel renewal changed entire districts.

Why it matters

Democracy at the stairwell is how concrete towers become homes people are proud to paint.

Source & repost

Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it.

Source: KÉK: Contemporary Architecture Centre · Panelprogram · Energiaklub.