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In Scotland, access to affordable and efficient heating systems as well as affordable energy supply is a necessity, yet for many pay meters, storage heaters and ongoing poor insulation are the reality.

Come to this session to learn about collective heating and energy systems in Scotland and see how to start to plan for a publicly accountable, affordable and localised system of energy provision, especially as registered social landlords are investing in new energy schemes and we need to take these opportunities to shape them to our needs.

[Image: Maryhill tenants forcing a negotiation over district heating charges]

PLEASE RSVP TO ATTEND

MEETING LINK: https://zoom.us/j/95651342565

PROGRAMME

Come to the meeting a few minutes early, so we can start sharp!

The meeting will consist of two 45 minute sessions with two of the following workshops to choose from.

• Tenants Struggles: recent battles around district heating and the lessons in what can be achieved, and what can go wrong.  A strategy for power in the longer term - companies making money from the sale of electricity while also metering the industrial byproduct: we can do so much better.
  
  
• Outline of the new Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing (https://www.gov.scot/publications/energy-efficiency-standard-social-housing-eessh-s[…]ish-government-guidance-social-landlords-revised-2020/pages/1/) - what it means for tenants and what it means for organising for power on housing schemes.
  
  
• Commonweal's Our Common Home, and other reports - the take home for what to fight FOR in terms of district heating in Scotland.
  
  
• The problem of "Edinburgh": how self regulation has allowed landlords to coninue to ignore long extant heating and housing standards, like Scottish Housing Quality Standard (https://www.gov.scot/policies/social-housing/improving-standards/) "In 2014, the regulator published an SHQS progress report. It covers a range of issues and was based on self-assessment information given by RSLs and local authority landlords. It showed that landlords expected that 2,408 houses would not meet the target, which is less than 0.4 per cent of all social houses."
  
  The self-regulation legacy: "One resident was told by her doctor her property was no longer safe for her and her child to live in." (mouldy, freezing flats, unfit for human habitation)
  

PLEASE RSVP TO ATTEND

MEETING LINK: https://zoom.us/j/95651342565

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This training is part of Living Rent’s training program supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Foundation, you can see the next training sessions on the website.