Housing 2025

At this week's Labour Party Conference, we are delighted to see how their message resonated with ours on the need for quality and affordability across all tenures, delivering the homes and sustainable communities the UK so desperately needs. That's why we are launching the #Housing2025 Leadership Symposium to raise the voice of the housing sector and creating new homes and thriving communities. Together, we can build a future where high-quality, accessible, and affordable housing is a reality for all. For more information, download our Housing 2025 Leadership Symposium brochure >>> https://lnkd.in/e3RXFhuU #Housing2025 #LeadershipSymposium #Bettertogether #labourpartyconference

Working with the new government at Housing 2025 Leadership Symposium After three days in Liverpool, listening to more sessions on housing than any party conference in living memory, we are delighted to see how their message resonated with ours for the launch of the NEW Leadership Symposium. We are all committed to raising the voice of the #UKhousing sector and creating #newhomes and #thrivingcommunities and we believe that the solutions to today’s #housingcrisis lie in #innovativepartnerships, #sustainablepractices, and #inclusivepolicies. Together, we can build a future where #highquality, #accessible, and #affordablehousing is a reality for all. A few of my takeaways... Department for Energy Security and Net Zero announced a new council retrofit scheme and Wave 3 of rebranded #SHDF. Tom Copley told Inside Housing at the Labour Party Conference that the Greater London Authority is currently exploring sites to develop with public and private sector partners. The deputy mayor added that he believes the housing sector is “crying out” for more #risksharing to #acceleratedevelopment. “At the moment, what we’re concentrating on is looking at #jointventures and then looking as well at what we can do around #landassembly, buying land and things like that.” #PrimeMinister Sir Keir Starmer has promised to house all #veterans, #youngcareleavers and victims of #domesticabuse, and introduce a duty of candour law to parliament before April next year. “Homes will be there for heroes,” he added. “They will have the security they deserve. They will have a roof over their head because Britain belongs to them.” Angela Rayner used her opening speech at the #LabourPartyConference to announce a new #claddingremediation plan and accountability to deliver ‘faster #repairs and complaints.’ At the conference, the housing secretary said: “We will also ensure social housing staff have the right skills and experience. And I will ensure 2.5 million housing association tenants in this country can hold their landlord to account for their high-quality services and homes – so that repairs and complaints are handled faster, but more importantly, so social housing tenants are treated fairly.” Be part of the conversation, join us at the Housing 2025 Leadership Symposium; The only place for the UK housing and wider #livingsector to come together to #innovate, #invest and #influence. A crucial platform for senior housing professionals to discuss securing the investment that is so desperately needed, and to look at what kind of partnerships are likely to be most effective to deliver new homes and thriving communities. For more information, download our Housing 2025 Leadership Symposium brochure here. https://lnkd.in/e2Qi3UFC #Housing2025 #LeadershipSymposium #Bettertogether  

BREAKING | Government will need to build 450,000 new homes in a year by 2029 to meet 1.5 million new homes target. https://lnkd.in/e9Qn8j3U Our new report, the road map to 1.5 million new homes, identifies a policy timeline and target in-year figures for the government to meet their target of 1.5 million new homes by the end of the Parliament. Recognising that housing completions are due to slump to around 160,000 in the current year, it calculates that housing delivery will need to reach 450,000 in 2028/9 in order to achieve the 1.5 million target, a number not seen since 1968. Be sure to check out the full report to see our recommendations to government to address the UK's acute housing need.

❗Last few remaining stands at #HOMESUK and #UnlockNetZeroLive. ▶Don't miss your opportunity to showcase your solutions in front of thousands of housing professionals. 🚀There are also limited sponsorship opportunities available: increase your brand awareness and position your organisation as a thought leader by speaking on one of our main stages. Get in touch with the team today>>> https://lnkd.in/enR-tzBn

For decades we have been at the forefront of all media and events for the UK housing market. As such, I am delighted to say we have a busy few months ahead of us.  If you are involved in #UKhousing or the wider #livingsector, as a #localauthority or #combinedauthority, #funder, #developer, #masterplanner, #housebuilder, we want to invite you to help us frame the conversation so we can truly collaborate to fix the UK #housingcrisis.   Plus, apart from our usual award-winning conferences and summits we are also working on two new ones, the first #InvestmentSymposium in the UK specific to housing across all tenures, working to support the new government on their ambition to build 1.5 million homes in their first term. And following that, in March we will be hosting the #BuildMoreHomes Summit 2025. Other dates for your diary:- 23 September 08.00-09.30 #LabourPartyConference, Liverpool (no complex pass needed) **Driving funding into UK housing** with Inside Housing and British Property Federation Register here https://lnkd.in/ebCs5Hqy 24 September 17.00-18.00 Labour Party Conference, Liverpool (complex pass needed details below) **A new generation of social housing?** In partnership with Progressive Britain and Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). 20 November 08.00-17.30 Bishopsgate **Social Housing annual conference and Inside Housing development and regeneration summit** The must-attend event for all housing leaders looking to plan and fund the strategic future of their business, and the delivery of quality, affordable homes. This all culminates at our #LeadershipSymposium at Housing 2024, Europe’s largest housing festival, 24-26 June, Manchester Central. Raising the voice of the housing and wider living sector with thriving communities at the heart. Creating sustainable homes and places ensuring quality, accessibility and affordability across all tenures housing is more than bricks and mortar and the solutions for today's housing crisis require innovative partnerships and funding to meet the need of growing and differing tenures. The new Government has put the delivery of high quality, accessible, affordable and sustainable housing at the heart of its long-term plans for the UK. Housing 2025 leadership symposium provides space to come together, discuss and collaborate to identify solutions and speak with one voice to those framing the debate. To speak, sponsor, attend and help frame the conversation, please do get in touch and we can ensure you are involved in our work. Housing. Our time is now.

Last month at #Housing2024, Sir Michael Lyons provided a retrospective on the progress since the landmark Lyons review and outlined the necessary steps moving forward. If you missed his session you can read his speech here: https://lnkd.in/ed7YBmbg And don't forget to join us in November at HOMES UK and Unlock Net Zero Live and our Inside Housing Development and Regeneration Summit - https://lnkd.in/gfXRyn5

Sir Keir Starmer vows to tackle the housing crisis and get Britain building again. Are you part of this? Join us for two days of curated content for all those involved in UK housing and the wider living sector at the south’s largest housing event. #HOMESUK and #UnlockNetZeroLive will cover a range of key themes including: ▶Overcoming the planning issues that are limiting the delivery of homes ▶Boosting city centre regeneration and the extension of towns ▶Building a national workforce to enable construction at scale ▶Improving health outcomes through quality homes and places ▶Uncovering new ways to fund housing delivery amid economic pressures ▶Making local plans matter for housing an ageing population, and how will we achieve this? Registration will only take a few minutes and is free* for those who meet the criteria >>> https://lnkd.in/dBK-i7Ug * Visitor passes are free to housing associations, local authorities, tenants, public sector, housebuilders, master developers, funders, architects, planners and BTR landlords, student accommodation, retirement living and extra-care providers. Fees will apply to other commercial organisations

Working with the new government, we are convening two days of curated content on 27-28 November for all those involved in #UKHousing and the wider living sector at the south’s largest housing event. If your organisation has a technology or solution that can help shape the future of housing delivery then ensure you do not miss out. Contact us here: https://lnkd.in/enR-tzBn This includes #assetmanagement, #repairsandmaintenance, #buildingsafety & #compliance, #development, #regeneration, #retrofit, #decarbonisation, #procurement, funding and more. #HOMESUK #UnlockNetZeroLive

If you enjoyed #Housing2024 then join us in November for HOMES UK and Unlock Net Zero Live where will be hearing from the new government. Registration is free* to attend! Plus we still have a few exhibition and sponsorship opportunities so if you are interested in helping shape the future of #UKhousing - enquire now to speak to the team https://lnkd.in/enR-tzBn

Recruitment and retention of staff is repeatedly being flagged as one of the key risks to delivery identified by social landlords – and I want to flag how the sector is dealing with it and what is working. It was a top 5 issue in this year’s Inside Housing survey of housing association risk registers. And last week’s fantastic and important report by the London Homes Coalition suggested that without action housing associations and contractors in London would face a gap of 2,625 skilled individuals to deliver planned investments over the next five years. The North East Housing Partnership has identified a need for more green skills, and skills and employability is a key part of its prospectus. The West Yorkshire Housing Partnership and York and North Yorkshire Housing Partnership prospectuses have a similar focus – more on that in my interview with Nick Atkin (who is vice chair and chair respectively) next week. The skills gap and the need to prepare the sector for the future are one of the reasons we launched our #HousingHires campaign in May – and one of the reasons Housing 2024 held a jobs fair in June. Given the obvious scale of the issue it would be great to identify and share learning from the very best recruitment and retention initiatives from across the UK. Given the campaign, I’m particularly interested to see the entries in the recruitment and retention campaign of the year and resident employment and training categories. There’s one week left for entries (well, four working days!) and we’re looking for campaigns that will help us find out the approach organisations are taking and hopefully share learning. (Should say, other categories are available – and looking forward to reading your good practice stories about resident and community-led decision making, homelessness and financial inclusion, and older people’s housing). Would love to hear your stories if you are doing good work that other organisations could learn from. Entries close next week (full details on the link). #HousingHires #UKHousingAwards #UKHousing #HousingAssociation #LocalAuthorities Nick Atkin Fiona Fletcher Smith Elly H. The G15 North East Housing Partnership Karbon Homes Paul Fiddaman Dr Charlotte Carpenter Northern Housing Consortium York and North Yorkshire Housing Partnership West Yorkshire Housing Partnership https://lnkd.in/e7uAHdXs