Net zero social housing could spur the wider market towards green homes

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The UK faces an acute social housing crisis as well as a major challenge to decarbonise homes, but a net zero social homes programme could offer a solution, argues Shelter's Alastair Harper

Our homes shouldn't still be built like this. Climate change has been known as a fact since at least the 1980s, when a certain Margaret Thatcher was the first leader of a major economy to say at the UN...

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