INSIGHT & COMMENT

How do we overcome the dual challenge of building new as zero carbon as well as retrofitting our existing properties that will still be in existence in 2050?

Passivhaus is good for you!

Sarah Lewis, research and policy director at the Passivhaus Trust, highlights how Homes England’s new Healthy Homes guidance is embracing the Passivhaus standard

The Future Homes Standard: evaluating how the sector is working towards targetsSponsored by H+H

Development experts attended a roundtable organised by Inside Housing and H+H to discuss progress on meeting criteria set by the Future Homes Standard

How social landlords can help tenants raise their voices on fuel povertySponsored by Aico

Simon Francis of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition explains in a video how social landlords can engage with tenants to help them talk about fuel poverty and understand the help available

ALMO Architecture & design Asset management Climate change Council owned housing company Council-owned housing company Give Fuel Poverty a Voice Campaign Housing Association/RP Housing Management Local Authority Other Sponsored content Tenant

How can landlords make homes energy efficient and sustainable, and tackle fuel poverty?Sponsored by Aico

As part of Inside Housing’s Give Fuel Poverty a Voice campaign, in association with Aico, we speak to two experts about how planning for net zero goals can also help residents hit by the energy crisis

ALMO Asset management Climate change Council owned housing company Council-owned housing company efficiency Fire safety Give Fuel Poverty a Voice Campaign Housing Association/RP Housing Management Local Authority Private rented sector Regeneration Regulation and Governance Sponsored content Tenant

Explainer: what is fuel poverty and how can landlords help?Sponsored by Aico

Inside Housing’s Give Fuel Poverty a Voice campaign aims to raise awareness of the issue

ALMO Asset management Climate change Council owned housing company Council-owned housing company efficiency Funding Give Fuel Poverty a Voice Campaign Government agency/department/organisation Govt agency/department/organisation Housing Association/RP Housing Management Local Authority Private rented sector Sponsored content Tenant

What impact is the Future Homes Standard having on working towards reducing carbon emissions?Sponsored by H+H

An Inside Housing survey, in association with H+H, looks at how the sector is progressing towards the Future Homes Standard, where new homes in England must hit lower carbon emissions targets by 2025

ALMO Architecture & design Asset management Climate change Contractor Council owned housing company Development Housebuilder Housing Association/RP Local Authority Private rented sector Product/service supplier Regulation and Governance Sponsored content

How can social landlords make older housing stock more energy efficient?Sponsored by Capita

Older housing stock needs to become more energy efficient in order to hit government decarbonisation targets. So how should social landlords approach the work? Glenn Allan from Capita explains

ALMO Asset management Climate change Council owned housing company Housing Association/RP Local Authority Sponsored content

Imagination: the decarbonisation superpower

Those who lead and govern social landlords need decarbonisation to become central to their mission, not just another add-on burden, argues James Tickell

ALMO Climate change Housing Association/RP Local Authority

The tenants’ climate jury: what happened next?

Almost a year ago, a group of tenants published a wide-ranging set of recommendations about how social landlords should approach climate change in existing homes, following a ground-breaking inquiry. Martin Hilditch meets the tenants who took part

ALMO Asset management Climate change Housing Association/RP Housing Management Local Authority North East North West People Technology Yorkshire and the Humber

ENGAGE IN THE DEBATE

Webinar recordings

Unlock Net Zero hosts monthly webinars focused on connecting our audience in the practical transition to net zero.

Unlock Net Zero Live

Unlock Net Zero Live brings the UK housing and built environment sectors together to push forward bold conversations and practical solutions to decarbonise our homes and places at both pace and scale

Housing 2025

Housing, Europe’s largest housing festival, will take place on 25 - 27 June 2024 at Manchester Central

Partner Content

The dignity of tenants is paramount and that requires frameworks delivering warm, safe homes at speed

Procurement frameworks are often seen as back-office tools, but when designed with resident wellbeing in mind they become vital levers for delivering safer and warmer homes, says Rory Evans, regional director at LHC

Contractors sought for major public buildings framework

Applications for the latest public buildings framework from LHC Procurement Group (LHCPG) – worth a total of £1.5bn – are open until 9 December 2025.

New Chair leads future expansion strategy for public sector procurement body

Public sector procurement specialist LHC Procurement Group has appointed Dame Maria Miller DBE as its new chair from 14 October 2025.

LHC Procurement Group launches £285m roofing systems framework

A total of 54 contractors have been appointed to the latest Roofing Systems and Associated Works (RS5) framework from LHC Procurement Group (LHCPG).

CHIC: Keeping residents safe and well

Being a housing provider is not easy in 2025. There are many issues that can keep you awake at night. As a regulated sector there is even more pressure and scrutiny (quite rightly) to provide consistently good service outcomes for residents, creating safe and healthy living environments for all.