Programme
- Understand the trends in and the drivers of the UK’s housing crisis and the impact on ordinary people
- Learn about and assess the extent to which the government’s plans for building more homes and supporting renters will tackle the UK’s housing crisis
- Exchange views on the role that rent controls, raising housing benefit and increasing the construction of Council housing could play in fixing the UK’s housing crisis
- Evaluate how greater local authority devolution can help ensure housing needs are met locally
- Understand the reforms to planning policy and the housing sector required to build the homes needed to meet the needs of a growing population
- Consider how empty homes could be brought back into use to increase access to housing
- Develop a comprehensive plan for reforming the UK’s housing model in order to eliminate homelessness and rough sleeping and ensure good quality, affordable housing for all
- Promote the roll out of higher density, mixed use developments as a means of meeting the UK’s housing needs and creating vibrant, walkable, more affordable, and more sustainable communities
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