And doing the wrong thing or protesting for one solution that isn't on itself really an solution leads to a wrong sense of doing something, especially since it's unlikely for the government to cough up the whole bill, so it's better if clear answers would be forthcoming, so home owners can see how much it's going to cost them which benefits it will bring, what grants they are entitled too and so on.
We have a scandal still in progress with people who bought flats, often subsidised, in blocks built with dangerous cladding. This ought to be an opportunity for intervention for improvements not only to fire safety but also for green energy refits. Many of these flats are in 'shared ownership' with housing associations that are supposed to be charitable organisations. Instead of pouring good public money towards bad developers the ownership model should be challenged - take them over as social housing, as housing co-ops.
Then we have council tenants being relocated for privately funded regeneration projects. Many of the council estates needed refurbishment, but this wasn't as easy for councils to pay for as to knock them down and sell the land. Then with 'greenwash' in the planning conditions rather than genuine green planning, opportunities for better long term infastructure are wasted. Nothing should be built with commuting in its ethos.
All new developments should have heating from communal systems, perhaps ground heat pumps - which seem the greenest present and future tech, rather than individual gas boilers.
While the funding models are so disastrous a campaign for insulation is little more than a tick-box exercise.
