Urbis has delivered two industry-leading reports prepared for the Community Housing Industry Association NSW (CHIA NSW) on the decarbonisation of the community housing sector.
The reports – one prepared for community housing organisations Decarbonising Community Housing (Supplementary Guidance for Community Housing Organisations in NSW), and one prepared for the NSW Government Decarbonising Social Housing (Delivery on NSW’s Ambition) – provide a quantitative analysis and assessment of the costs, benefits, considerations, challenges and recommendations of how to accelerate and enable the decarbonisation of community housing properties at scale.
In preparing these reports, Urbis analysed over 46,000 community housing properties across 17 climate zones, 4 different construction date phases, and 8 dwelling sizes, resulting in 1,836 archetypes and 3 decarbonisation intervention bundles – Basic, Modest and Climate-Ready. Key benefits were identified and analysed across carbon emissions reductions, net zero economy activation, social value, cost savings to tenants, improvement to tenant’s health and welling, public health cost savings, and contribution to the NSW Net Zero targets.
New South Wales is currently undergoing a dynamic phase of energy transition, emissions reductions, and energy efficiency improvements, and with these reports a quantifiable assessment will provide guidance and priorities of how best the community housing sector can play a major role in this transition.
“It has been a pleasure to work on such a meaningful and impactful project with CHIA NSW and their community housing members. We hope that this project will support the community housing providers with decarbonisation guidance, funding and finance options, and by identifying the wider community and social benefits of decarbonisation and retrofits, assist in accelerating the net zero transition of the sector.
Brenton Reynolds
Director