Welcome to the London Housing Summit 2026!

Our conference host will brief our guests on the day’s programme.

We will share exclusive early insights from the programme’s first, flagship project:  ‘Delivering the Homes London Needs: What Will It Take?’, exploring the barriers to both new housing delivery and optimal use of existing stock in London.  The full report will be released following the local election on Tuesday 19 May.

With only a third of the capital’s 88,000 homes a year target currently being met – and local elections approaching in May – this session examines how policy, politics and planning could unlock building the homes London needs at scale. ​​

Can increased housing supply alleviate London’s housing crisis? What would this take, and what other levers must be pulled?

Delegates and experts from across sectors will join moderated, thematic sessions.

Does London have the skills it needs to deliver its houisng pipeline? Facilitated by Central London Forward

• London must deliver 440,000 homes by 2030 but faces its worst construction skills shortage in decades.
• This session explores improving skills pathways, collaboration across sectors, and making construction attractive to young people.
• We’ll be asking questions such as: how can London improve skills pathways to this vital sectior; how can construction companies, developers, skills providers and government create new systems; how do we make construction an attractive prospect for young people?

How we deliver homes for everyone, facilitated by Crisis 

• In this workshop you will hear from a range of voices about innovative approaches to housing supply. 
• It’ll focus on how we provide genuinely affordable homes for people who are homeless or at risk across the capital.

Embedding relational and reflective practice in housing services, facilitated by Inner Circle Consultating, London Borough of Camden and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

• Trust, empathy and deep listening are increasingly recognised as essential to delivering effective housing services. 
• This workshop will discuss how relational housing services have to mean more than just having ‘good working relationships’ and will share how the Camden Centre for Relational Practice is working to increase institutional capacity to do things with people, not to them. 
• You’ll leave teh session with: a grounding in relational practice theory; reflections from the field on why the work is being done, what’s being done, what’s working and what’s challenges; and an understanding of how you might want to apply this to you housing work.

Young residents influencing housing policy, facilitated by the Partnership for Young London

• This workshop will showcase Young Residents in Partnership, sharing insights from youth-led housng research including six recommendations from MTVH, Clarion and Hyde residents. 
• We’ll be inviting sector collaboration to improve youth recognition, communications strategies and representation across organisations.

Delegates will have the opportunity to join different thematic sessions.