For our next Existing Stock Forum we have partnered with Housing Today to run the session within their Building the Future conference. Those working for organisations who are members of The Housing Forum can attend for free and are welcome to attend just for our event if they wish, or for the entire conference. The discount code has been emailed to members, or contact Sandra.Manning@housingforum.org.uk to access the discount code.
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The Housing Forum has partnered with Housing Today for this Existing Stock Forum which will focus on how the whole of the housing sector can come together to ensure we make best possible use of social housing. Can we match households to housing more effectively? What do we need to build to encourage older people in larger homes to downsize, or to allow overcrowded families to upsize, freeing up chains of moves within the sector? What should we be building to facilitate a chain of new lettings for each new home? Numbers in temporary accommodation are soaring and councils finding it harder than ever to build the new social housing that most people seek, putting ever-growing pressure on finances – can we be more creative with the way we use allocation schemes to incentivise people to find the best possible housing while they wait?
Confirmed Speakers include:
- Leo Pollak – Head of Policy and Planning at the West Midlands Combined Authority, and author of Housing Allocations and the Vacancy Chain
- Irene Craik – Director at Levitt Bernstein
- Jamie Carswell – Chief Officer, Director of Housing and Safer Communities, Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Nazia Azad – Programme Manager – Ageing Better
- Anna Kadziolka – Associate, Architecture – BPTW
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