Find out more about the most important topics to you and your organisation in the 3 key themes available to explore:
• Housing Supply
• Building Safety & Existing Stock
• Decarbonisation
Reports
Housing Supply
Insight Report | Joint Venture Forum
The Housing Forum and Baily Garner hosted a roundtable of of industry leaders to share their experience of delivering housing through Joint Ventures (JVs).
Housing Supply
CEO Forum | Preparing the housing industry for a market uplift, what might change and who will drive delivery forward?
Against a volatile backdrop to housebuilding, staying close to partners and investors brings stability and gives forward visibility to the supply chain. Studying data widely across the market and applying it rationally will help with preparations for the future.
Building Safety & Existing Stock
Housing Asset Strategy Forum No 1 | 2024 | Insight Report
As the housing sector seems to lurch from crisis to crisis in the sector, a multitude of requirements have become a particular challenge for asset managers: fire safety, quality of workmanship, damp and mould, net-zero carbon and various component programmes.
Building Safety & Existing Stock
Housing Asset Strategy Forum No 3 | 2023 | Insight Report
The final Housing Asset Strategy Forum of the year, sponsored by Baily Garner, explored Baily Garner's Damp & Mould toolkit, with an explanation of how the toolkit works and a successful case study at the West Kent Housing Association.
Housing Supply
CEO Forum | The impact of current market conditions on housing delivery
Against a volatile backdrop to housebuilding, staying close to partners and investors brings stability and gives forward visibility to the supply chain. Studying data widely across the market and applying it rationally will help with preparations for the future.
Housing Supply
CEO Forum | Public Sector Bodies Approaches’ to Temporary Accommodation Strategies
Land and development partnerships with local councils bring housing schemes into use quickly and relieve the rising cost of temporary accommodation. As a long standing partner with Cardiff City Council, Wates were approached by the Council to provide accommodation solutions initially for Ukrainian refugees.
Manifesto
The Housing Forum Manifesto urges an increase in supply and delivery particularly through:
- Developing more affordable homes
- Restoring balanced housing markets
- Later Living accommodation
OUR VIEWS
What the Housing Forum says about Housing Supply and Delivery.
ONE
Chief Executive Forums debate barriers to housing supply in many city regions and examine new offers including Build to Rent.
TWO
Growth corridors have been examined in depth. Innovation Forums have taken place in Manchester’s Northern Gateway and Development Partnership Forums in the Leeds City Region and the new settlement at Alconbury Weald in Cambridgeshire.
THREE
Our working groups carry out in depth reviews of barriers to supply and affordability. Most recently in “Future Proofing Housing Supply” and “Making a Place for Low Cost Housing”.
FOUR
As MMC becomes a feasible option for the residential sector, we have published our latest guide “MMC for affordable housing developers”. This report builds on our well-received earlier report “More Homes through Manufacture”.
FIVE
We collate members views on government consultation for new supply – the latest being First Homes.
SIX
Our views have contributed to a range of industry reviews including the Affordable Housing Commission, the London Housing Strategy and the Lyons Review.
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