Practical tools and resources

Overheating mitigation in social housing

Recorded 19 March 2026, this webinar looks at the NHF's new climate resilience work and shares how some housing association's are starting to incorporate overheating mitigation into their work.

The Heat Network Technical Assurance Scheme (HNTAS) consultation

Recorded 9 March 2026, this webinar explored what will be required of housing associations once the Heat Network Technical Assurance Scheme comes into force, and what housing associations can do to prepare now.

Warm Homes Plan: what it means for housing associations

In January 2026, the government published its long-awaited Warm Homes Plan, offering essential certainty for NHF members to be able to plan ahead for retrofit and decarbonisation initiatives. Additionally, this plan confirms funding allocations for the upcoming three years. Recorded 4 February 2026 this webinar provides further detail, analysis and discussion on the plan and the associated policy areas.

Heat networks - preparing for January 2026

From 27 January 2026, the new regulatory regime for heat networks in the UK will begin. Recorded 10 December 2025, this webinar includes updates from Ofgem about what you need to do to prepare, and what will be required of you under the new regulations.

Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator

We highly recommend the work of the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator that has been supporting social housing providers to access and deploy the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and they cover both strategic and practical skills. They have a series of podcasts, webinars and a knowledge hub which includes EDI in Retrofit toolkit designed to support equality, diversity, and inclusion within organisations developing and delivering social housing retrofit projects. More resources are released regularly.

Residents’ voices in the net zero journey

Communication is key if social landlords are to deliver the decarbonisation agenda say PlaceShapers and Tpas.

Social housing tenants' climate jury

The Northern Housing Consortium and partners have launched a first of its kind Tenants’ Jury to understand how tenants, social housing providers and others can work together to tackle climate change in our homes and neighbourhoods.

Social Housing Toolkit

A practical guide from the Retrofit Academy CIC to help social landlords and local authorities deliver effective retrofit measures that will benefit all you and your tenants and deliver warm, comfy, and efficient homes for all.

Climate action: energy, planning and housing

The Local Government Association (LGA) collates best practice case studies of local authority climate action, often including work to local authority homes which housing associations may find useful.

Hard to decarbonise social homes

NHF members have told us they are concerned about homes that may be especially hard or even impossible to decarbonise. This might be because the measures required are uneconomic, logistically or technically troublesome, or the impact of those measures on residents or others is unacceptable. This report examines why some social homes are harder to decarbonise than others.

Heritage and traditional homes

A recurring challenge for housing associations when it comes to decarbonisation is the difficulty of retrofitting heritage and traditional homes. We've rounded up of some of the key information and practical guidance for retrofitting heritage and traditional homes.

Zurich Municipal whitepaper - The Sustainability Shift: Places

What does sustainability mean to you and your organisation? And where are you on your sustainability journey? The latest Zurich Municipal whitepaper, The Sustainability Shift: Places, shines the spotlight on sustainability and how it is central to building and maintaining progressive and resilient communities.

Carbon jargon

The language of carbon and energy can be complicated and different people can use the same phrase to mean different things. This glossary of carbon and energy related terms from the NHBC Foundation is a clear glossary of carbon and energy related terms that aims to provide a concise and common vocabulary for the house-building sector.  

Flooding toolkit

The flooding toolkit is designed to help housing associations prepare in case of a flood, or manage in the event of a flood.

This toolkit is based on the experiences of a number of housing associations that have been through major flooding incidents. The toolkit provides case studies, timelines, template packs and top tips.

Overheating Adaptation Guide for Homes

Commissioned by the British Red Cross, and produced by Shade the UK, the Overheating Adaptation Guide for Homes provides 43 measures people can consider for their homes to mitigate against overheating, including external shade, internal shade, passive cooling, ventilation, and minimising internal heat gains.