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Recommendation 17
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We welcome the Social Housing Decarbonisation fund and support its aims to retrofit social housing...
Conclusion
We welcome the Social Housing Decarbonisation fund and support its aims to retrofit social housing at scale. However, to date only a fraction of the funding has been made available for demonstrator projects that may well not deliver the efficiencies that larger schemes could achieve.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Last year’s Summer Economic Update announced the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Demonstrator project, which was launched in 2020 and has awarded £62m of funding to social landlords across England and Scotland. 19 projects received a share of the funding, seeing over 2300 social homes improved to at least EPC band C. The successful projects within the SHDF Demonstrator were announced on 23 March 2021 and details are available here. The Demonstrator project is supporting social landlords in developing new and innovative ways of bringing down the cost of whole house retrofits, with a combination of energy efficiency and clean heat measures. Insights and learnings from the Demonstrator will be used to develop the design of the longer term SHDF, which will upgrade a significant amount of the social housing stock currently below EPC C up to that standard, delivering warmer and more energy-efficient homes, reducing carbon emissions and bills, as well as supporting green jobs.