Fabian Housing Centre

The Fabian Housing Centre is a major research and policy programme to help shape the implementation of the government’s housing strategy and the broader housing debate across the UK.

We are developing practical but ambitions ideas to build 1.5m homes, tackle the housing crisis, and create great places to live.

To do so, the Centre is working in collaboration with key housing stakeholders, policymakers and those affected by the housing crisis.

We are currently working on several projects:

• Great places to live – a vision of how delivering the 1.5m target can create good quality homes and transform communities for the better.
• Quick wins – Identifying quick or no cost wins that could increase housebuilding, improve the housing market, and deliver better quality homes.
• Renters’ rights – developing further policies to support tenants in the private rented sector. A project with Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Construction skills – how to tackle the construction skills crisis and ensure we have the skilled workers to build the homes we need.
• Making homeownership a reality – research on support for first-time buyers, and reform of the house buying process to ensure fairer outcomes. A project with the New Homes Quality Board.

We have published:

• Breaking Ground which set out the scale of the challenge facing the government to build 1.5m new homes, and how number of homes started will have to increase rapidly to reach levels never before seen in England.
• Forward Planning which recommended policies to ensure older people can remain independent in their own home as they age. A project with the Centre for Ageing Better

We want to hear about transformative, progressive ideas for tackling the housing crisis, and work with partners to develop new thinking on housing.

Get in touch with Ben Cooper, head of the Fabian Housing Centre: ben.cooper@fabians.org.uk