The Household Energy Upgrades Fund is a Commonwealth program including $300 million for energy performance retrofits for social housing.
Better Renting coordinated a joint letter with 73 other organisations calling on the Government to:
- establish targets and track progress to retrofit all social housing by 2030,
- increase the total funding at least six-fold out to 2030, &
- establish a dedicated stream of funding to prioritise remote social and Aboriginal-controlled housing.
The letter is reproduced here. A list of signatories is below.
Signatories to the open letter
1 Million Women
350.org
ACF Community Canberra
ACF Community Geelong
ACOSS
ACT Shelter
ACTCOSS
ANIKA Legal
Anti-Poverty Network SA
Asthma Australia
Australian Conservation Foundation
Bass Coast Climate Action Network
Better Renting
Beyond Zero Emissions
CANSign
Care Financial Counselling Service
Community Housing Industry Association
Clarence Climate Action
Climate Action Hobart
Climate Council
Climate Emergency Australia
Climate Justice Union
Combined Pensioners & Superannuants Association
Community Power Agency
Conservation Council of SA
Consumer Policy Research Centre
COTA ACT
Darwin Community Legal Service
Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action
Electrify Canberra
Energetic Communities
Environment Centre NT
Environment Victoria
First Nations Clean Energy Network
Friends of the Earth
Healthy Futures
Housing for Health Incubator
Jesuit Social Services
Light House Architecture and Science
Make Renting Fair Alliance WA
National Shelter
NCOSS
Newtown Climate
Nillumbik Climate Action Team
NTCOSS
Older Women's Network NSW
Parents for Climate
Peoples Climate Assembly
Public Interest Advocacy Shelter
Power Together
QCOSS
QShelter
Queensland Conservation Council
Renters and Housing Union
Renew
SACOSS
Shelter NSW
Shelter SA
Shelter WA
Solar Citizens
St Vincent de Paul Society National Council
Stiebel Eltron
Sustainable Living Tasmania
Sweltering Cities
TasCOSS
Tasmanian Climate Collective
Tenants Tasmania
Tenants' Union of NSW
Uniting (Victoria)
Uniting Communities
VCOSS
Venture Housing
Vote Earth Now
Yarra Energy Foundation