This report presents funding and finance options to support the roll out of rapid and substantial energy performance and climate-resilience retrofits, to low-income housing. The report is informed by a series of workshops held in 2023, and subsequent consultations with experts across government, housing, property, energy, finance, climate change and community sectors.

This research examines the preferences and trade-offs of tenants during social housing retrofit programs, particularly in regard to implementing circular economy (CE) practices. The study looks beyond the relatively narrow consideration of energy efficiency, to respond to the broader requirements of the social housing sector—to incorporate and balance tenant needs with provider mandates, budgetary limitations...

This scoping study focuses on the existing housing stock available to the 4.4 million Australians with disability who live in the community in houses, duplexes, apartments, townhouses and units that they own or rent. Many of these people have a disability with particular needs that would benefit from effective housing modifications.

This report makes the case that the nature of the recession predicted over the coming years necessitates fiscal stimulus measures to restart and redirect the UK economy. At the same time, the UK’s climate change targets necessitate the ‘retrofit’ of millions of homes in the coming years, involving multiple, integrated building fabric measures, new heating...

This guide is intended as a simple to use reference for social housing asset managers and others involved in social housing upgrades.