Warm Rents

A new model for healthier homes

Warm Rents is a pioneering programme led by Switchee that’s rethinking how rent is structured in social housing. It offers a heat-inclusive rent model backed by smart data, enabling residents to live in warm, healthy homes while providing landlords with a fair, evidence-based way to share heating costs. In its first year alone, the programme has delivered results with significant implications for policy, property management, and resident wellbeing across the UK.

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Why Warm Rents?

Builds a new standard for pricing warmth

Warm Rents is building the evidence base for a new, fairer way to price rents, one that includes the cost of heating to 18 degrees during the day and 16 degrees at night.

Improves health and wellbeing

Keeps homes at healthy temperatures, reducing the risk of cold-related illnesses and improving residents’ mental and physical health.

Reduces mould and damp, protects property

Can massively reduce the conditions that cause damp and mould, protecting residents, homes and cutting repair costs.

Supports rent stability and affordability

Offers a fair, data-backed way to include heating in rent, protecting residents in energy inefficient homes, reducing financial anxiety for residents.

Delivers measurable social value

Boosts tenant satisfaction, economic activity, and NHS costs, all of which create clear returns for communities and services.

Supports UK Net Zero goals

Aligns the systems incentives to promote energy-efficient heating and drives investment in sustainable technologies.

Warm Rents resident feedback

"I moved in just before winter and didn't know how I'd afford to keep the place warm. Then I got the voucher offer on my Switchee and it felt like someone out there cared. Not just about bills, but about how we're living. It gave me hope that things might actually get better.

PFP resident

"I've worked all my life, and still ended up sitting in a house flat wearing three jumpers. This programme was the first time someone actually saw the problem and did something about it. No inspections. No judgement. Just support. That means so much."

Clarion resident

Proven results

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Average temperatures

Shift from cold to healthy temperatures

Heating use

Improved comfort and thermal stability

Humidity

Relative humidity dropped by 6% on average