#HousingDay 2017: Twitter Q&As with sector heavyweights

Terrie Alafat, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing, will take questions from 10am as part of a session focusing on where the sector goes next after Grenfell.

Before then, #HousingDay founder Ade Capon will kick off things off by introducing this year’s theme – ‘true people, real stories’ – and taking your questions.

Labour’s John Healey will talk politics and housing in a session at 2pm.

Major housing chief executives will be quizzed on how the sector can deliver more homes in another session at 11am. Carol Matthews of Riverside, Elizabeth Austerberry of Moat, Mark Henderson of Home Group will be answering the questions, in a session sponsored by H+H.

Polly Neate, the new chief executive of Shelter, will take questions about combating homelessness at 4pm.

Ever been frustrated by the national media’s depiction of social media tenants? From noon we will be running a session entitled ‘Tackling negative portrayals of social housing tenants’, with Richard Peacock, chief executive of Soha Housing.

The role of different tenures in the market will be the theme of a session at 1pm with Amy Nettleton, assistant development director – sales and marketing at Aster Group, and Philip Barnes, group land and planning director at Barratt.

Fellow sector heavy-hitters Sinead Butters, chair of Placeshapers, Tony Stacey, chief executive of South Yorkshire Housing Association and Liz Cook, chief executive of Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing – along with sponsor John Skivington, director at LHC – will chat about delivering social impact at 3pm.

#IHchat programme

8am - Introducing #HousingDay (chair: Carl Brown)

• Ade Capon, #HousingDay founder and communications officer at Yorkshire Housing

9am - Improving services for tenants and innovation (chair: Pete Apps)

• Nick Atkin, chief executive of Halton Housing Trust
• Peter Walters, executive advisor, Vivid

10am- Where does the sector go after-Grenfell? (chair: Carl Brown)

• Terrie Alafat, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing

11am- How can the sector deliver more homes and faster? (chair: Joe Dart)

• Carol Matthews, chief executive, Riverside
• Elizabeth Austerberry, chief executive, Moat
• Mark Henderson, chief executive, Home Group
• John Churchett, director of social housing & construction, H+H

Sponsored by H+H

12pm Tackling negative portrayals of social housing tenants (chair: Martin Hilditch)

• Richard Peacock, chief executive, Soha Housing
• Rachel Broady, social housing tenant and journalist
• Jenny Osbourne, chief executive, Tpas

1pm The role of different tenures in a changing market (chair: Luke Barratt)

• Amy Nettleton, assistant development director sales and marketing, Aster Group
• Philip Barnes, group land and planning director, Barratt
• Richard Connolly, chief executive, Rentplus

2pm The political slot

• John Healey, shadow secretary of state for housing

3pm - Community investment: delivering social impact (chair: Joe Dart)

• Sinead Butters, chair, Placeshapers
• Tony Stacey,, chief executive, South Yorkshire Housing Association
• Liz Cook, Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing
• John Skivington, director, LHC

Sponsored by LHC

4pm - How do we combat homelessness? (chair: Sophie Barnes)

• Polly Neate, chief executive, Shelter

4.45pm Closing Tweets