Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund

The Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3 is the government’s new name for what was known as the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Wave 3. 

The fund supports social housing providers to insulate social homes, improve energy efficiency and upgrade heating systems. Together with match funding from housing associations it helps retrofit social homes and tackle fuel poverty for residents, deliver carbon savings to progress toward net zero by 2050, and grow the housing retrofit sector.

The government confirmed an initial £1.29bn of funding for the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund 2025-2028 during the 2024 Autumn Budget. Labour has a manifesto commitment to deliver £13.2bn of housing retrofit funding to 2030. We continue to make the case for this manifesto commitment to be upheld and deliver much-needed funding as part of our work on the 2025 Spending Review. We await further details of the government’s broader Warm Homes Plan.

The £1.29bn within the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund was oversubscribed by more than £1bn with applications from social landlords, which demonstrates how ambitious the social housing sector is regarding warm home upgrades.

Applications to the fund closed on 25 November 2024 and successful applications were announced in March 2025 alongside confirmation of the devolved funding to Greater Manchester Combined Authority and West Midlands Combined Authority. Organisations will have until 30 September 2028 to complete works.

The devolution white paper set out an ambition to devolve the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund to all established mayoral strategic authorities over the course of this Parliament, and to Liverpool City Region, the North East, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire by 2028 at the latest.

Ongoing free support for applicants is available through the Retrofit Information, Support and Expertise (RISE) service – formerly known as the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator – including application support, training and delivery guidance to help social housing providers and their supply chains across England plan and deliver successful domestic retrofit programmes.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority and West Midlands Combined Authority areas

For members in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) areas, funding will be devolved to the Combined Authorities. Therefore, for projects split across these areas and elsewhere in the country, funding must be sought from the appropriate scheme for each project. However, requests for a single funding source will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Please contact WMCA or GMCA directly with enquiries.

Who to speak to

Rory Hughes, Policy Officer

Rory.Hughes@housing.org.uk

Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund

Greater Manchester Combined Authority and West Midlands Combined Authority areas

Who to speak to

Rory Hughes, Policy Officer

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