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Connected Places Catapult’s Homes for Health and Resilience 23/24 Programme has delivered a series of tangible goals – and there is much to look forward to this coming financial year.

Ask any Londoner what the city’s greatest challenge is and they’ll probably mention the housing crisis – or, more specifically, the affordable housing crisis.

Connected Places Catapult has announced a new Homes and Housing Advisory Board with 11 members.

Making homes more energy efficient is the aim of efforts by Connected Places Catapult and the housing sector to promote retrofit.

Housing is often viewed as a silo within the built environment value chain. But if we’re going to rise to the 21st century’s housing challenges by unleashing innovation, we need to think about housing as a network of markets and ecosystems.

Society has no shortage of innovative ideas or technologies to solve problems. The challenge is knowing whether these solutions can unlock the best outcomes for people and places.

With a danger of blackouts this winter amid soaring energy prices and great hardship for swathes of the population, well-insulated properties could drive down the nationwide demand for energy and household bills. Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, Chief Executive of the Green Finance Institute, reflects on how improving the energy efficiency of the UK’s housing stock is vital for a successful transition to a net-zero economy.

Cold and damp homes have been proven to have damaging impacts on physical and mental health, especially for the most vulnerable groups in society.