Housing Summit

The Fabian Society’s Housing Summit is a day-long conference bringing together leading decision makers and opinion formers to explore housing policy in depth.

• Date & Time: Tuesday 7 July 2026, 10:00 – 16:30
• Venue: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), 12 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AD

The government has set out a series of ambitious targets on housing, including building 1.5 million new homes. At the Fabian Society, our Housing Centre is working in collaboration with key stakeholders from across the housing industry, policymakers and those with lived experience to develop practical but ambitious ideas to achieve 1.5 million good quality new builds, tackle the housing crisis and create great places to live.

The Housing Summit, in partnership with RICS and PEXA, will provide a platform to discuss these ideas and broader issues with leading voices from across the sector.

Registration is limited and will close on Monday 6 July at 12:00 am. To secure your space, book below!

Please also find a full breakdown of the programme below.

10:00 – 11:00 | Lecture Hall | Welcome

• Cllr Dr Sara Hyde – Chair, Fabian Society
• Justin Young – CEO, RICS
• Ben Cooper – Research Manager and Head of the Fabian Housing Centre

11:15 – 12:00 | Renters’ Rights panel

• Antonia Bance MP – Member of Parliament for Tipton and Wednesbury
• Charlie Trew – Head of Policy, Shelter UK
• Dr Jennifer Harris – Head of Policy, Research and Social Impact, TDS
• Marcus Johns – Senior Researcher, Fabian Society
• Chaired by Sasha Nugara – Property Reporter, The Times & The Sunday Times

11:15 – 12:00 | Affordable Homeownership panel

• Luke Murphy MP – Member of Parliament for Basingstoke; Member, Treasury Committee; Convenor, Labour Living Standards Coalition
• Ben Cooper – Research Manager and Head of the Fabian Housing Centre
• Sue Phillips – Founder, Shared Ownership Resources
• Chaired by Margaret Pinder – Independent Consultant; Labour Mayoral Candidate, Hull and East Yorkshire 2025

12:15 – 13:00 | Homelessness panel

• Alison McGovern MP – Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness; Member of Parliament for Birkenhead
• Emily Darlington MP – Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes Central; Vice-Chair, Homelessness APPG
• Jasmine Basran – Head of Policy and Campaigns, Crisis
• Matthew Torbitt – Political Commentator, Policy Advisor and Anti-Homelessness Campaigner
• Chaired by Jack Shaw – Chair, Labour Housing Group

12:15 – 13:00 | Housebuilding Under Pressure panel

• Mike Reader MP – Member of Parliament for Northampton South; Chair, Built Environment APPG
• Chris Curtis MP – Member of Parliament for Milt0n Keynes North; Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
• Kate Markey – CEO, Nationwide Foundation
• Ben Cooper – Research Manager and Head of the Fabian Housing Centre
• Chaired by Martina Lees – Senior Property Writer, The Times & The Sunday Times

13:05 – 13:45 | Lecture Hall | In-Conversation

• Daniel Hewitt – Investigations Editor, ITV News
• Vicky Spratt – Housing and Society Correspondent, The i Paper
• Chaired by Ben Cooper – Research Manager and Head of the Fabian Housing Centre

13:45 – 14:30 | Housing Quality panel

• Martin McCluskey MP – Minister for Energy Consumers; Member of Parliament for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West
• Anna Dixon MP – Member of Parliament for Shipley; Chair, Housing and Care for Older People APPG
• Kwajo Tweneboa – Social Housing Activist and Author
• Emma Toms – Chief Executive, New Homes Quality Board (NHQB)
• Patrick Murray – Executive Director (Policy and External Affairs), Northern Housing Consortium
• Chaired by Jay Morton – Director of Bell Phillips Architects

13:45 – 14:30 | Housing Around the World panel

• Luke Charters MP – Member of Parliament for York Outer; Former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Business and Trade Secretary
• Tom Copley – Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development
• Angela Hesketh – Head of Government Affairs and Public Affairs, PEXA
• Rose Grayston – Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
• Chaired by Palma Oxley – Researcher, Fabian Society

14:45 – 15:30 | Future of Flats panel

• James Small-Edwards AM – Member of the London Assembly for West Central; Chair of the Planning and Regeneration Committee
• Sem Moema AM – Member of the London Assembly for Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest; Deputy Chair of the Housing Committee
• Cllr Kane Emerson – Barnsbury Ward Councillor, Islington Council; Head of Housing Research, YIMBY Alliance
• Mairead Carroll – Senior Specialist (Property), RICS
• Palma Oxley – Researcher, Fabian Society
• Chaired by Ellie Brown – Reporter, Inside Housing

14:45 – 15:30 | Council and Social Housing

• Danny Beales MP – Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• Dr Jeevun Sandher MP – Member of Parliament for Loughborough
• Baroness Dacres OBE – Labour Party Peer and Former Mayor of Lewisham
• Issy Bull – Interim Head of Advocacy, New Economics Foundation; Former Special Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister
• Chaired by Emma Burnell – Editor, LabourList

15:35 – 16:25 | Lecture Hall | Keynote and In-Conversation

• Florence Eshalomi MP – Member of Parliament for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green; Chair, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
• Chaired by TBC