Join Centre for London, in partnership with L&Q, one of the London’s largest housing associations, at this year’s Labour Party Conference.  

Over a year from the general election, London’s escalating housing crisis remains the biggest challenge facing the city and its residents. An essential part of the solution is rapid delivery of affordable homes. Policy challenges remain: in May, over 6,000 homes have been cut from affordable homes programme target, and London’s share of the recent uplift to the programme is uncertain. Viability, land assembly and skills challenges remain.  Finding solutions that would help tackle the London’s housing challenges in the long term, whilst alleviating the impacts of the crisis today requires immediate and urgent attention.    

Our panel will explore: 

• What needs to be true to ensure the capital’s ambitious housing delivery targets are met? 
• How can policymakers make London more attractive for skilled and talented workers in the built environment sector? 
• How can Labour’s Homes Plan enable energy inefficient improvements and low carbon heating upgrades for low-income households in London, with over one in ten households experiencing fuel poverty and the slowest rate of heat pump installation in the UK?   

Our panel will bring together London policymakers and industry experts from Centre for London and L&Q, to discuss how to sustain and deliver affordable housing targets while tackling the affordability crisis and skills shortage in London. 

Speakers:

• Chair: Antonia Jennings, Chief Executive, Centre for London
• Cllr Peter Mason, Leader of Ealing Council
• Fiona Fletcher-Smith, Group Chief Executive, L&Q
• Florence Eshalomi MP, Member of Parliament for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green and Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee
• Joe Powell MP, Member of Parliament for Kensington and Bayswater
• Tom Copley, Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development, Greater London Authority

If you would like more information about the event, please contact our Senior Events Officer,  Aiste Kontrimaite.