Breakfast Club Briefing: Tackling the Housing Shortage
How can we build enough well-designed homes to encourage economic growth, and provide the opportunity for millions of young people to become homeowners?
We invited Sir Brandon Lewis MP, a firm advocate for reform in the planning and housing sector, along to our most recent Breakfast Club Briefing to find out.
Our round table discussion focused on the profound effects of the housing shortage including high house prices, limited affordability, increased mortgage debt, and declining homeownership rates, primarily amongst young adults. Plus how the repercussions of this extend to wealth inequality, hindered labour mobility, sluggish city productivity, and delays in family starting amongst the younger generation.
What made our discussion even more captivating was the diverse representation in the room, including housebuilders, SME developers, planning consultants, senior officers and more.
Thank you to Countryside LLP, Hub/Hubcap, Avanton, Avison Young, Savills Senior Planning Officers Waltham Forest, LB Southwark, LB Camden for joining us.
The Breakfast Club Briefings event series was devised by Ackroyd Lowrie to encourage open discourse between planners, developers, politicians and policymakers on the biggest challenges facing urban development. By providing opportunities for private and public sector organisations to meet, we can share knowledge and develop realistic solutions for improving our cities, homes, workplaces and communities.
Read more of Sir Brandon Lewis’ views on where we can ensure better delivery of housing stock in the UK in his foreword to the recent Policy Exchange paper, Homes for Growth.
