The Housing Forum Futures Network surveyed and interviewed Housing Forum members, to identify the current and future challenges around skills shortages, including hiring, training and retention, from across the whole of the housing and construction sector.
While these are unique to different types of organisations involved in UK housing delivery, key, cross-cutting themes include the rising costs for businesses and local authorities to upskill and employ qualified people to deliver safe, high-quality and sustainable new homes and upgrades to existing stock.
We identified the range of ways in which organisations presently employ to attract, develop and retain the workforce needed to build and manage the homes that the UK so desperately need, to identify best practice and gaps to be filled.
Employers should consider investing in building, the required skillsets in-house rather than competing for a smaller, more competitive and expensive pool of higher qualified individuals. This may be an area in which central government can support the housing sector directly.
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