Additionally, other cost savings identified include time spent seeking overdue rent payment, legal costs and court costs which decline by around 35% for more energy efficient homes.
The savings for landlords can add up to millions over a decade, so the return on investment is clear for landlords as well as for the tenants.vdsvsdvdsvdvsd
So in summary, while the Warm Homes Fund is to be broadly welcomed, we would like to see much better connection between funding sources so that social housing providers can spend less energy on jumping through multiple hoops and more on creating holistic, effective and efficiently-executed interventions. vdsvsdv
And we would also like to see the deadlines extended on this initiative to give all 407 local authorities and the many thousands of registered providers a better chance to apply.
While we understand that this may not be attractive logistically to AWS, it would create a bank of quantifiable evidence as to the scale and scope of the required funding to meet the national need to eliminate fuel poverty in the social sector, at least.
