Audiobook - Deploying Innovative Retrofit Funding Models in the Social Housing Sector
2nd August 2026
A practical playbook for Chief Executives, Finance Directors, Property Directors and the boards they answer to, setting out how social landlords can fund retrofit at a scale the traditional grant and borrowing model cannot reach. Developed through the Retrofit Society, led by Healthy Homes Hub with Energiesprong UK, and commissioned by L&Q, Places for People, Platform Housing, Riverside, Sovereign Network Group, Vivid and Yorkshire Housing. It sets out eleven work streams covering strategy, financing, data, legal structuring, procurement and delivery, drawing on real programmes including work with the London Borough of Enfield under the Mayor of London's Zero Carbon Accelerator.
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This audiobook is narrated using AI-generated voice technology.
Chapters
(00:00) Introduction (Title, Foreword and How to Use the Playbook)
(06:28) The Playbook in Short
(27:24) The Playbook in Full
(33:23) The Case for Change
(42:09) The Eleven Workstreams
(44:23) Workstream One: Strategy Development
(56:20) Workstream Two: Customer Engagement and Customer Offer
(01:05:08) Workstream Three: Financing
(01:33:14) Workstream Four: Data
(01:44:02) Workstream Five: Legal and Regulatory
(01:55:14) Workstream Six: Understanding Risk and Risk Management
(02:03:29) Workstream Seven: Master Planning and Distribution Network Operator Engagement
(02:10:36) Workstream Eight: Procurement and Supply Chain
(02:21:54) Workstream Nine: Pre-Construction, Delivery and Management Structure
(02:28:57) Workstream Ten: Social Value and Job Creation
(02:39:48) Workstream Eleven: Reporting, Measurement and Governance
(02:45:54) What Next?
(02:48:53) Appendices
