Tenants’ Jury submits evidence to The Centre for Social Justice’s inquiry into social housing decarbonisation

The NHC worked with members of the Social Housing Tenants’ Climate Jury to submit evidence to The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) after the influential centre-right thinktank launched a call for evidence on the opportunities and challenges associated with social housing decarbonisation.

The CSJ inquiry will be investigating how social housing decarbonisation can drive economic growth through a boom in decarbonisation employment opportunities alongside skills support to ensure new job opportunities can be filled by those who would benefit most, can provide a sustainable future for all communities, and enable social housing providers and the government to hit key net zero targets.

The CSJ asked to hear from social housing providers, residents, organisations working in communities that could benefit most from levelling up and anyone with expertise in social housing decarbonisation.

The CSJ evidence submission was drafted by tenant Juror Steve Mackenzie, with support from the NHC team. The award-winning Social Housing Tenants’ Climate Jury, is an NHC project which saw 30 social housing tenants from across the North of England come together to discuss how climate change impacts their lives. The result of the Jury’s work was the production of a set of recommendations to the sector; their views as social housing tenants as to how to answer the question “how can tenants, social housing providers, and others work together to tackle climate change in our homes and neighbourhoods?”

Prominent within this project was the current and pressing issue of retrofitting homes in social housing with materials and technologies to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. Read the NHC’s submission to the CSJ inquiry on our website, here.

As mentioned in the submission, we are exploring the opportunity to engage further with the CSJ, and hope to host online roundtable with the CSJ, Jury members and landlords in the new year.

If you would like to discuss the CSJ inquiry or the Social Housing Tenants’ Climate Jury any further, please contact Brian Robson (Executive Director, Policy & Public Affairs) Brian.Robson@northern-consortium.org.uk