Housing Issue 04

How do we best care for our ageing population?

Finding new ways to care for our ageing population in social housing is essential if the sector is to improve living standards for all.

As the UK’s population ages, local authorities, housing associations and housebuilders are obligated to ensure people’s needs are being met. One way to do this is to build residential areas dedicated to the elderly, which can help ease the housing crisis further down the line.

In this issue, Quadrant Housing analyses how the sector can make the best use of new and existing technology to meet these growing needs of an ageing population, how cyber security should be taken more seriously and how geospatial data can save associations costs and time.

With a specific focus on how the social housing sector can expand its housing stock faster, Quadrant Housing dives into the most topical discussions and debates about the future of the housing industry.

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Closing the Skills gap Through the Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition

After BEIS announced the Home Decarbonisation Skills Training Competition to help organisations close the skills gap and deliver retrofit installation and project management training via the Midlands Net Zero Hub, how far will £9.2m go in closing the gap?

As it currently stands, the UK must build around 300,000 houses per year to make up for years of underdelivery and to keep pace with population growth.

The recent Housing Supply: Indicators of New Supply, England: Jan to March 2022 report indicated that England is not meeting these targets. The report explained: “According to building control figures, the number of dwellings where building work has started on site was 42,350 from January to March 2022.”

This is a 1 per cent increase compared to last quarter but a 7 per cent decrease compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Moving forwards, the report stated: “According to building control figures, the number of dwellings completed was 43,160 from January to March 2022. This is a 3 per cent increase when compared to last quarter but is an 11 per cent decrease when compared to the same quarter a year ago.”

All things considered, there were 216,490 net additional dwellings between April 2020 and March 2021, an 11 per cent decrease on the net additional dwellings created between April 2019 and March 2020.

Skills and expertise required in all aspects of the housing sector

The construction industry urgently needs skills and expertise in all areas of housebuilding—at technical, supervisory and managerial levels. It also requires skills in all aspects of the life-cycle of housing construction.

Consistent funding for training is essential to get to PA2030/35 standards

This fund builds directly on from the Green Homes Grant Skills Training Competition, which was completed in October 2021, and saw 18 training providers appointed and delivered nearly 7,000 courses supporting over 300 organisations. BEIS have acknowledged due to current and future programme needs such as the £150m SHDF wave 1, £800m wave 2, ECO4, GHG LAD etc., they must invest in getting the skills force up to PA2030 and PA2035 standards.

Looking to meet these ambitions, the £9.2m fund hopes to produce 2,400 PAS2035 Qualifications (Retrofit Assessor/Coordinator), 3,500 Insulation Qualifications and 3,000 Heat Pump Qualifications.

Eligibility criteria have been set out by BEIS

To be eligible for funding, providers must adhere to a set of principles by BEIS. Firstly, training institutions must be inclusive of Further Education, Higher Education, Training Academies and Manufacturing Training Centres to ensure a wide range of skills and jobs are enhanced through the scheme. Additionally, all training must be in order to deliver installation at National Occupational Standards towards the 2030 benchmark. Focusing on 'fabric first' will be essential to decarbonise the housing sector, and it is actively encouraged to undertake training in delivering this approach effectively.

Other eligibility criteria include being available to existing and new sector institutions, delivered in a face-to-face classroom environment, and a maximum spend of £1m for each project per training organisation.

Why the Rent Cap is a Lose-Lose Situation for the Social Housing Residents

After the UK Government announced a rent cap on social housing amid concerns around soaring energy bills and inflation, what were the decisions and the direct and indirect effects of the plans?

For months there has been much speculation about the support package for social housing tenants from central government. As Liz Truss secured the position as the leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, the DLUHC announced plans to cap social rent increases at 5 per cent.

While this policy makes sense in the short term to help ease the difficulties social housing residents face and has been widely accepted by the industry as the right thing, there are further calls for a longer-term strategy to mitigate doubledigit inflation and protect the budgets of landlords investing in decarbonisation.

Suppose the sector doesn’t actively look for ways to transition to alternative energy sources such as ground source heat pumps and solar panels. In that case, social housing tenants risk future price hikes and further uncertainty.

Budgets to be cut by £1.3bn next year

A 5 per cent cap on social rents will cut over £1bn from social landlord’s budgets next year. This will create even more of a stretch for housing associations already balancing staff costs, decarbonisation costs, investment in existing stock and funding for new homes.

While it is essential to create this level of support for tenants, it should be part of a broader policy that looks after current tenants and promotes growth for the sector.

Some in the sector argue that smaller housing associations’ viability is at stake. In contrast, others have argued that passing on a significant rent increase during the cost of living crisis goes against the social purpose of the sector.

The trade-off between short-term and long-term strategy

In normal circumstances, social housing rents are capped at a maximum of the CPI of inflation plus 1 per cent, which is set in September every year. The current cap, agreed upon during a rent settlement in 2017, was supposed to remain in place from 2020 to 2025. But the maximum increase could have been over 11 per cent with the Bank of England’s predictions.

This means that while tenants are saved from an eye-watering increase in rent alongside an increase in energy bills, social landlords will have to compromise on their spending plans.

Research from the DLUHC’s impact analysis for the rent cap highlighted that social landlords would receive £1.3bn less in rent next year. If the cap stays in place for five years, that figure will rise to around £7bn.

Many in the sector have highlighted concerns that social housing residents will be affected by vital services being cut across the industry. This positions social housing residents in a lose-lose scenario.

They either have to pay higher rents for services to continue, or they have their rent capped and vital services are cut with investments in net zero reduced.

According to the National Housing Federation, new homes, repair and maintenance costs are all rising above inflation, which reflects the dire situation the social housing sector is facing. Landlords have to pay more for repairs while receiving an income cut.

Social Housing tenants are in a lose-lose situation

The DLUHC’s impact assessment on the cap indicated: “There would be monetised benefits to social housing tenants who either (a) pay their rents without assistance from housing support, or (b) receive housing support but at a level that is – or would be – limited by the benefit cap or the removal of the spare room subsidy.

Continuing, it stated: “We estimate that these households would pay approximately £2.8bn (nominal) less in rent over the period 2023-28. There would also be a benefit to taxpayers of £4.6bn (nominal) in lower welfare spending (compared to the ‘do nothing’ counterfactual) over the same period.”

Oddly, by the government’s own admission, it will save £1.8bn more in reduced benefit spending than households will save on lower rent. This leaves the sector in an uncertain territory as we look to improve existing housing stock and build new stock.

Using Geospatial Data to Digitally Survey Social Housing Stock

With local authorities and housing associations looking to survey existing housing stock and decide what retrofit solutions are needed, how can the sector speed up this process?

Surveying housing stock is time-consuming, expensive and can be disruptive or invasive for social housing tenants. Unfortunately, it is essential that housing associations and local authorities can conduct these surveys to improve their stock’s living and environmental standards.

One way this level of information can be collected more affordably, less invasively, and more cost effectively is through geospatial data. Geospatial data describes objects, events, or other features with a location on or near the earth’s surface. Geospatial data typically uses location information.

Project LEO to connect people and place through digitalisation

As part of Project LEO, Geospatial Insights has been involved in surveying the housing stock across Oxfordshire. Project LEO is running trials in Oxfordshire to understand how new technologies and services, particularly at the ‘edge’ of the network – closest to the point where people are using energy – can benefit local people, communities, and the energy system.

According to project LEO: “This cross sector collaborative project is building a broad range of reliable evidence of the technological, market and social conditions needed for a greener, more flexible, and fair electricity system. It is also learning what changes need to

happen within national and local policy to enable this.”

Geospatial Insights are uniquely positioned to offer its solutions to Oxfordshire housing associations and local authorities. They operate by accessing a vast range of geospatial data types sourced from a worldwide drone operator network and over 400 satellites with the opportunity for on-demand tasking.

It is essential to maximise digitalisation impact on housing associations

Ensuring that they maximise their digital impact on the housing sector, they are focussed on enhancing geo-intelligence through the fusion of alternative real-time data sources such as social media feeds, newsfeeds, anonymised mobile phone timing and weather.

They also use Cloud-based delivery through online platforms, dashboards and via API to enable easy visualisation and interaction, providing new insights and perspectives.

To discuss how Geospatial Insight helps housing associations and authorities survey their housing stocks and help with retrofit decision-making, Quadrant Housing spoke to Ian Dee, Climate Applications Lead at Geospatial Insights. Explaining their role in Oxfordshire, Ian began by explaining: “Oxfordshire County Council wanted to know on a county scale what properties might be suitable for certain clean energy technologies, what properties might need support to become energy efficient as the area begins to build a smart grid. It is all about creating a business case for clean energy options.”

Some authorities and associations decide to go and look at Google Earth manually, but even using that method is extremely difficult to collate that information and interpret it.

A digital surveying service saves costs and time

That’s where geospatial intelligence comes in and digitalises the surveying process. It not only accelerates the intelligence gathering process, “But it gives the client an evidence base on which they can rank and prioritise what they want to do and base it on how much they’re going to have to spend.”

While Geospatial Insight does not direct authorities and associations on what they should implement, they can offer advice on what will reduce the most emissions and the most cost-effective retrofit approach.

Ian added: “If you are looking at one or two properties, you will not go to that extent. Instead, you would go on Google Earth or go out in the car and have a look at the property. However, you cannot do that when you have got 10,000 or 100,000 properties.”

If a local authority had tens of thousands of social housing properties, which many do, it would take years to survey their whole stock at considerable costs. Instead, Geospatial Insights could allow for a more focused manual survey, post-digital survey.

Another significant benefit of surveying this way is you can then do manual surveys, if required, on properties you specifically know have issues that need fixing.

Hypothetically speaking, if an association needs to survey 3000 properties manually, it will take significant time, and they might find that only 1000 have an issue, whereas, with Geospatial, they could identify those 1000 properties in a significantly shorter period.

The takeaway message for the housing sector is that local authorities need to look at more innovative ways of working and recording data for their housing stock. Geospatial is undoubtedly an appealing option for this.

So, to go out and survey them [all the houses in Oxfordshire] and understand the makeup of those properties, the potential for them, it’s just a gargantuan task if you’ve to do it using traditional surveying methods.

Ian Dee

Climate Applications Lead Geospatial Insights

Credit: Geo Spatial Insights

Rethinking Housing Strategies: Managing our Ageing Populations Needs

As the UK begins to face the problems of an ageing population, the housing sector is facing a huge problem and how to provide housing that suits the changing needs of the population.

In England alone, over the next 25 years, the number of people older than 85 will double to 2.6 million. This will impact how the housing sector needs to adapt as the needs of the population change.

One way to tackle this is to provide the ageing population with alternative living arrangements, such as community living and residential areas dedicated to older adults.

Providing a better alternative for the older generation is essential

Nicola Gooch, Partner at Irwin Mitchell, spoke about the benefits of building dedicated housing and the Unlocking Potential for Seniors Housing Report.

It was explained that: “It provides a better quality of life. It keeps people independent, happier and healthy for longer. If we don’t plan for it, we will cause ourselves problems. The longer you leave it, the harder it will be to address.”

The Unlocking Potential for Seniors Housing report sets out the sector’s problem. It stated: “Over a third (36%) of local authorities don’t currently have clear policies in place to support housing for seniors.”

Discussing the progress made over the last five years, Nicola continued: “While this shows an improvement over the past five years, there’s still a lot more that needs to be done. Currently, it still stands that less than a quarter of local authorities have clear senior housing policies in place. This means we won’t be prepared to provide enough suitable housing for our ageing population in the coming years.”

Local authorities are making progress, but is it enough?

Despite this, Some local authorities have made real leaps forward since Irwin Mitchell last published this report in 2020. Nicola’s home authority of Tunbridge Wells has jumped from 171st in the overall private opportunity area rankings to an impressive 6th place.

Nicola told Quadrant Housing: “This comes as a result of an increased level of investment in the area, a supportive local council, and a significantly improved planning policy position in the emerging local plan (which is currently at examination).”

Delivering properties for elderly people to downsize can free up housing for the younger generation, including those looking to move into social housing. People aged 65 and over could release £1.2 trillion in equity by moving out of homes with two or more spare bedrooms.

However, unless incentivised to do so, the housing crisis will continue to grow. The UK has a real issue with under occupation, which means that there are families with three or four children who cannot move into these houses.

Houses hold special memories that can be hard to give up

Nicola said: “I completely understand the emotional reasons for not downsizing, but if we can encourage the people who want to or allow the people who want to do so, we will keep the housing chain moving.”

The dilemma of an ageing population often slips under the radar of local authorities and housing associations. Still, it is a core issue that needs addressing alongside the need for energy transition and retrofit accelerator programmes.

The report set out to grade local authorities across the country and rank them from A-D. The criteria for each grading are as follows: Grade A: Clear policies indicating details of the required number of dwellings or care home beds, how this will be achieved and specific site allocations given.

Grade B: A clear policy as above, but no land or site allocations. Grade C: Site allocations given, but no clear seniors housing policy. Grade D: Neither – with policy (at the most) confined to generalisations such as “we will make provision for housing all types of people including the elderly and the disabled.”

Out of the 327 local authoirites that took part in the survey, it was found that 76 (23.3%) were graded A; 96 (29.4%) were graded B; 36 (11.0%) were graded C; 118 (36.2%) were graded D.

The changes in the number of local authorities are due to boundary changes between surveys. Where combined local authorities have yet to combine plans, they have been counted separately.

the social housing sector adds another critical factor to address to the list, there must be enough funding from central government to aid the house building and meet the 300,000 homes per year target set out in the Conservative manifesto.

The percentage of local authorities who’ve adopted seniors’ housing planning policies has improved, increasing from 9.7% in 2017 to 23.3%. The percentage of local authorities with no clear guidelines to address seniors housing has also reduced – from 62% to 36.2%

Nicola Gooch Partner at Irwin Mitchell

Bringing Digitilisation into the Heat Pump Market

As BEIS plans to develop a digital platform to support the development of the market for low carbon electric heat pumps, how essential is it that we weave digitalisation into net zero targets?

The digital platform will primarily record sales data for heat pumps and boilers, calculating manufacturers’ obligations on the proportion of sales of the two.

Additionally, the digital platform will collect heat pump credit trading data, support information management and communication with market participants.

Automating data collection will save time and costs

Using digitalisation to automate data collection is beneficial for the housing sector and BEIS to directly see what aspects of the market are incentivised and which need further motivation.

For central government, specifically, BEIS can use this data to analyse the market trends and decide what future decarbonisation funds should focus on.

Digitalisation offers governments the opportunity to streamline policy decisions and track the progress of funding allocations.

At a local authority and housing association level, it allows them to monitor their housing stock more effectively.

Creating this platform is part of more comprehensive plans to introduce a Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) in 2024 that will create a market incentive to increase the number of heat pumps installed in existing premises each year.

It will involve an obligation on manufacturers to sell a certain number of heat pumps proportional to fossil fuel boiler sales.

BEIS will be better positioned to make retrofit policy

BEIS has published a market notice for support in a discovery project to understand the requirements for a minimum viable product of the platform. It is considering whether it might need a bespoke system or be able to meet some requirements with existing products.

Again, digitalisation is the key to enabling this level of analysis and decision-making, potentially speeding up the retrofit programmes and saving costs for central government, local authorities, and housing associations, respectively. Coupling projects like this with other digitalisation projects happening across the UK, the housing infrastructure will rapidly become modernised as we push to decarbonise the sector and build more housing to tackle the housing crisis.

Modernising the housing sector isn’t as simple as suggested, and massive changes are needed from the central government, local authority, and housing association levels. Despite the difficulties, it is essential that the sector pushes through these barriers and scale up decarbonisation projects. Once digitalisation is implemented across the industry, scalability will be more rapid.

Sage Housing: How to Deliver 30,000 Homes by 2030

As Blackstone-owned ‘for profit’ landlord Sage Homes delivered over 3,200 affordable homes in 2021, an increase of more than 50 per cent, what can other housing builders and associations learn when delivering their housing stock?

Ahead of publishing the annual accounts, the registered provider announced that 3287 affordable houses were built in 2021, with a further 1,847 homes exchanged in the first two quarters of 2022.

According to the statement, with close to 20,000 homes in its portfolio, the houses added in 2021 are 52 per cent above the 2,162 reported in 2020. Despite this, though, COVID figures in 2020 may have had an impact on the increase over the last year.

Securing £73m from Homes England helps to push ambitious targets

Part of the reason Sage Housing managed to set a new personal record for housing delivery was through the securing of funds from Homes England, which saw them receive £73m. Additionally, strategic investment partner status said it invested £547m for housing delivery. This was an increase from £397m in the previous year.

Back in January 2022, the for-profit housing association announced an ambitious housing delivery target of 30,000 homes by 2030. To help ensure this target can be met, Blackstone and Regis are exploring the options of selling a stake in the business in order to push a boost in funding.

In the statement, Alison Thain OBE, Chair, Sage Homes, said: “2021 has been an exciting year where we doubled the size of the Board, enhanced our customer centric approach and invested significant capital enabling us to announce a new target in January 2022 to deliver 30,000 homes by 2030.”

Continuing, Quadrant Housing heard: “I am incredibly proud of all our employees and my fellow Board members dedicated to serving our customers. Their efforts ensured that Sage Homes not only met our goals but significantly exceeded them as we continued growing at scale.”

Social Values should be at the heart of housing delivery

Adding to this, Mark Sater, Chief Executive, Sage Homes, said: “We are proud to be England’s largest provider of new build affordable housing in 2021. Our strong financial and operational performance and continued investment have helped deliver a record number of high-quality new sustainable homes for Sage Homes. I am delighted to report that this performance has continued into 2022, as we deliver much-needed homes at scale to those who need them the most.”

Gemma Kataky, Managing Director, Real Estate at Blackstone, said: “Blackstone and Regis have supported Sage since its inception in 2017, committing a record £4 billion of investment into delivering highquality, energy efficient and affordable homes in England.”

The statement revealed that the firm’s 2021 turnover grew to £174m, up from £94m in 2020. Building the business case for other investors and housing associations is essential to meet more comprehensive housing delivery targets. Sage Housing is undoubtedly setting the benchmark for others in the sector to follow.

We look forward to supporting Sage further to ensure that together, we can play a leading role in increasing access to affordable housing at a time when the need has never been more acute.

Gemma Kataky Managing Director Real Estate at Blackstone

How Seriously do we Take Cyber Security?

Three months after the cyber attack that impacted the country’s largest housing association, how seriously is the sector taking cyber security?

Back in July 2022, Clarion, which manages 125,000 homes, was hit by a large-scale cyber attack which affected many of its services for over two months.

The main effects of service were through their telephone and email services, which directly affected tenant’s looking to pay rent, report serious maintenance issues and more.

Clarion worked closely with its cyber security partner to try and recover services as quickly as possible. However, two months later, social housing residents continued to complain of communication issues.

Cyber attacks can take months to resolve

Speaking in an announcement at the time of the attack, a Clarion spokesperson said: “We apologise to our residents for the continued disruption to our services, which is the direct result of a cyber security incident.

“We are working urgently with our cyber security partner and other experts to restore our systems. To do this safely and securely takes time, but we are working hard to minimise disruption as far as possible.”

Clarion aren’t the only victim of cyber attacks, as cyber security in the sector fails to cope with increased digitalisation in the sector. In 2020, it was revealed that nearly a quarter of housing associations had suffered varying levels of cyber attacks. Only seven per cent lost money, according to the findings taken from

RSM’s Health of the Social Housing Sector 2021 survey.

The latest survey highlighted that 23 per cent of housing associations in the UK had suffered a cyber attack. Keith Ward, head of social housing at RSM, said: ‘It’s great to see the number of cyber attacks has decreased; however, we do know that cybercriminals are getting increasingly more sophisticated, and housing associations will continue to be a target. So ongoing vigilance, staff training, and investment in operational controls will be key to mitigating risk.”

Cybersecurity funding just as essential as digitalisation

Naturally, many landlords and associations are pushing on with the digitalisation of their operations and are realising it is essential to match R&D spending on technology with cyber security.

A lot of digital technology is aimed at increasing levels of digitally enabled care for vulnerable people. It is just as important to protect their data as it is their health. Many social landlords in Scotland have endorsed the Digital Participation Charter, promoted by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.

The pandemic saw a dramatic increase in sophisticated attacks

Despite the overall number of cyber attacks falling in general, there has been a noticeable increase in sophisticated attacks since the start of the pandemic. This means it is crucial that social landlords consider what security measures they need to invest in.

While associations a generally quick to respond to these attacks, prevention is always better than a cure. Cyber security is likely to be a fruitful area for internal auditors to review. Housing associations can find a whole wealth of material at the National Cyber Security Centre, specifically designed to help organisations defend themselves from targeted attacks.

It’s great to see the number of cyber attacks has decreased; however, we do know that cybercriminals are getting increasingly more sophisticated.

Keith Ward

Head of Social Housing

RSM

Protecting Social Housing Residents From Compounding Crises

With the cost of living crisis spiralling as we approach the winter months, Peabody has released its most recent research report named: Energy, economy, environment: Protecting social housing residents from compounding crises.

Focussing on how best to protect social housing residents across the country, Peabody set out to develop a research paper as most of their residents are on low to middle incomes. The rising cost of fuel has driven up inflation and is a source of great difficulty for many. Without further support, the increase in utility bills is expected to result in 1 in 3 households experiencing fuel poverty this winter.

While these price increases will  impact the whole population, they will disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable in society.

Peabody found shocking statistics from its survey

Surveying 287 Peabody residents, speaking to staff and other housing associations, the report set out key findings and offered policy recommendations for central government and Ofgem, the government regulator for the electricity and downstream natural gas markets in the UK.

The core findings from the research were that at the beginning of April 2022, 80 per cent of their residents were already heat restricting, 42 per cent were spending less on food, and 12 per cent had borrowed from a short-term lender.

Shockingly, 42 per cent of their residents were restricting heat use and spending less on food; thus, neither heating nor eating adequately. The winter months

will exacerbate this issue, with questions lingering around whether the current government support will go far enough.

Many social housing residents are conflicted between supporting government intervention on net zero and increasing energy bills. The report highlighted: “Those struggling the most are less likely to be supportive of government commitments to reducing carbon emissions if it means that their costs increase.”

Researchers Megan Clarke and Anna Clarke also spoke to staff across Peabody and other housing associations. They found that: “The energy crisis has exacerbated existing problems that housing associations face when managing debts owed to utility companies in vacated properties.”

Additionally, the report explained: “Heat network customers and suppliers are paying for a lack of regulation to protect them from volatile and anticompetitive energy markets. Significant barriers to achieving net zero in the social housing sector include the value of funding awarded through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund not keeping up with inflation, an insufficient time to consult residents thoroughly, and hard-to-treat properties.”

Ofgem and central government have an obligation to protect social housing residents

After setting out the findings from their report, Clarke and Clarke highlighted what should be done from an Ofgem and central government perspective.

Focussing on what Ofgem must do to ensure social housing residents are protected from rising energy bills, the report stated: “Ofgem should make it easy and affordable for people to pay for their energy in a way that suits their needs by committing to the implementation of a Social Tariff, like the one proposed by National Energy Action and Fair by Design 2.” This would bring the cost of using

a prepayment meter to the same level as direct debit customers.

Another key theme from the report was to introduce the implementation of a price cap that would prevent residential customers from paying more than they would if they were not on a heat network.

Central government also has a core responsibility to protect the most vulnerable in society from rising bills. Central government should support social housing providers in decarbonising stock by providing an inflation uplift on funds awarded by the SHDF to ensure adequate funding is available at the time of construction and to maintain financial viability.

Wrapping up, the report concluded that government should: “Adjust the administration of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund to allow more time for resident engagement. We are asking for a one-year extension to the current time allowed by the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund guidelines, allowing three years for project delivery.”

There can be a conflict between support for government intervention on net zero and cost of living pressures for our residents

Those struggling the most are less likely to be supportive of government commitments to reducing carbon emissions if it means that their costs increase National Energy Action (NEA)

expensive standing

impact those on the lowest incomes. Ofgem should also regulate heat networks to encourage responsible management and protect consumers.

Clarke and Anna Clarke Peabody Research Report:

social housing residents from compounding crises

Creating Sustainable Homes for the Future

6 October, 2022 The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Why Smart Housing?

Housing is an integral part of the evolution of the Smart City. Never has it been more important to create sustainable urban areas which are designed for the future, whether that be retrofitting existing homes, achieving net zero carbon emissions, to smart placemaking.

By utilising the Smart Housing mindset, the entire housing sector can come together to deliver the urgent need for more sustainable homes, designed for future generations to live and work together.

Join us on 6 October 2022 at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester , where housing leaders, experts and innovators will be discussing what is needed right now to drive meaningful change and create communities for the future.

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