Climate Change and Your Home
Scotland's Housing Network and the Tenants Information Service (TIS) are undertaking a survey of social housing tenants across Scotland to help understand tenants' views and attitudes towards climate change.
The Scottish Government recently published Housing to 2040 which is a report that sets out their vision for housing in Scotland over the next twenty years. As part of this, they have committed to adapt existing homes to make them more environmentally friendly. An important part of Housing to 2040 is also to reduce climate change by decarbonising heating systems. This means moving away from gas heating systems and using more energy efficient options, such as solar panels and heat pumps.
Meeting these aims is a big task and will require social landlords' to invest a large amount of time and money. This is why they need your help, as a social rented tenant, to plan how to manage the improvements needed to people's homes; especially as this will involve carefully assessing the impact that these changes could have on rent levels.
Completing this survey will also help social landlords across Scotland to understand what tenants' and residents' views on climate change are and what they would like to know more about. This will help us to develop a communication strategy that can be used across the social housing sector.
The survey and full details can be found here: https://forms.office.com/r/YySw6cRFD
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