Nobody doubts we are in the midst of a housing crisis – the worst in a generation. One in four 22 to 30-year olds depends on their parents for somewhere to live according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Our view is that if we are to tackle this housing crisis within a generation we need to start building at scale. This requires a real political will at both central and local level to make this happen, backed up by a suite of measures and incentives to make it viable.
We need to embrace a wide range of initiatives to allow building at scale. How we do that is the focus of this report.
It continues the work of The Housing Forum Working Group set up in January 2014 under the title Building Homes for the Future, which aimed at coming up with ideas to tackle the housing crisis.
The Working Group was chaired by Philip Pamment, Director of PRP’s Project Management team.
The Housing Forum has a reputation for advancing solutions to increase both the quality and quantity of housing and is uniquely able to draw on all parts of the housing supply chain to put forward our suggestions, based on advanced and innovative industry-led practice.
We have gathered our ideas over the last 12 months through a series of workshops, presentations and round table discussions around the country.In our report we have chosen to focus on ideas we feel can contribute a significant number of additional new homes.
Some of these are already Government intention and we have looked at the measures needed to make them work – such as housing zones and garden cities and the private rented sector.
Other aspects of our work focus more on encouraging a wider take up of pioneering new initiatives that are already beginning to bear fruit, such as new partnership ventures.
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Chair, Phillip Pammet
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