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Major housing associations launch commission into future of sector
Three of the largest housing associations in the UK have launched a commission to look at how the sector should change over the next 10-15 years.
The Future Shape of the Sector Commission is the brainchild of Network Homes, Clarion Housing Group and L&Q. It will be chaired by Lord Andrew Turnbull, former cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, who explains more about the commission in a piece for Inside Housing today.
The commission will look at how housing associations of all sizes should respond to the housing crisis and manage any future changes in a post-Brexit world.
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L&Q previously led a similar commission in 2006 which looked at how housing associations could evolve as some grew to own and manage 100,000 homes. This new commission will look at what the implications of that growth are for the sector.
The commissioners include Professor John Hills from the London School of Economics; Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation; and Steve Douglas, partner at Altair and former chief executive of the Housing Corporation.
The commission is issuing a call for evidence this week to housing associations, government, councils, thinktanks and charities among others and will hold roundtables in the new year before a final report is published next summer.
The closing date for submissions is Friday 24 November.
Clare Miller, group director of governance and compliance at Clarion Housing Group, said: “There has never been a more important time than now for the sector to consider how it should evolve.
“At Clarion we have already reached the milestone of 100,000 units identified in the Growing up report. Housing associations have a key role to play in delivering much-needed new homes; the next stage of our development is to maximise our capacity to deliver and to carry on fulfilling our charitable objectives.”
