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The Housing Innovation Map

The Housing Innovation Map

Getting housing right is essential to building cities that are economically successful, great places to live, and resilient and adaptable to change. We’ve identified nine housing innovation concepts that we believe could help solve a lot of challenges facing the international housing industry. Explore them here.

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Get involved in our Future of Housing programme. Discover new thoughts and ideas from industry leaders and innovators. Explore our innovation map for a better understanding of key focus areas.
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Systems-thinking and housing

As part of our Future of Housing blog series, Ken Gibb, Director of UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, seeks to apply systems-thinking and, in particular, complexity theory to the housing system and to ideas and innovations that seek to transform housing for social, economic and environmental reasons.
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London’s largest housing associations have committed to building as many as 180,000 homes nationwide by 2025. In this Future of Housing guest blog, Charles Glover-Short, Corporate Research at Optivo Housing, explains how modern methods of construction can help meet this target, highlights what the methods are and why the industry should be pressing for their implementation more widely.
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We are living in an era where demand for housing is more diversified than ever. In response to this, innovation is burgeoning across a range of areas but, the traditional housing sector is slow to respond – so how can the sector embrace this disruption?
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There’s been much talk recently about a UK housing crisis, but it’s not just the volume of housing that we need to be concerned about. Existing UK housing is also old and inefficient. Dr Richard Miller, Associate Director of Future Cities Catapult and Founder of Miller-Klein Associates, explores possible solutions.
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