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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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The Future Of Housing

The Future Of Housing

Visit our Future of Housing knowledge hub

Explore guest blogs from industry leaders on how innovation can address the challenges facing housing and get involved in our Future of Housing programme. Discover new thoughts and ideas from industry leaders and innovators and explore our innovation map for a better understanding of key focus areas.
Blog – The future of housing: Let’s make it happen

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About the future of housing

Digitisation and innovation are driving the evolution of our world like never before, and the time has come to apply this ever-increasing capacity for meaningful change to housing. Which is why we’re excited to announce the forthcoming launch of our Future of Housing programme. Find out more here.

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Housing Breakfast Talk – Future of Housing

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Housing Breakfast Talk - Future of Housing

Developing homes which are fit for the future is vital for creating vibrant city economies, as well as promoting well-being and good quality of life for urban populations.
Blog – Homes becoming data hubs in the smart city revolution

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Homes becoming data hubs in the smart city revolution

Using software and online services to run commercial properties is fast becoming the norm and modern office buildings have become machine-like in their complexity, with Commercial Facilities Managers using software and data analysis to run them. In this instalment of the Future of Housing guest blog series, Nigel Walley, Founder & MD of Chimni, considers how this behaviour is likely to extend beyond the commercial world and become as standard in residential properties too as our homes become more connected.
Blog – We need ambition and innovation to tackle London’s housing crisis

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We need ambition and innovation to tackle London’s housing crisis

Londoners need more genuinely affordable homes as quickly as possible. In this Future of Housing guest blog, James Murray, London’s Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development, highlights the ways in which the Greater London Authority is encouraging the development of new homes through innovative means in order to meet growing demand.
Blog – Systems-thinking and housing

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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.
Blog – Housebuilders and barriers to modern construction methods

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Housebuilders and barriers to modern construction methods

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.
Blog – It’s time to build homes fit for ageing generations now

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It’s time to build homes fit for ageing generations now

In this article, as part of our Future of Housing guest blog series, Dr Rachael Docking, Senior Programme Manager at the Centre for Ageing Better, highlights the need to build new, and retrofit existing, homes for the ageing population.
Blog – Understanding local housing markets

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Understanding local housing markets

Guest blogger, Neal Hudson, Director of Residential Analysts Ltd, says technology and data can offer local authorities a better understanding of the complexities in their local housing markets, helping them make decisions that deliver better outcomes for housing.
Blog – Transforming housing construction

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Transforming housing construction

The UK Government has an aim to increase home building from the current levels of just over 200,000 to 300,000 per year. Learn how new digital manufacturing technologies can help meet the productivity challenge and deliver higher quality, energy-efficient buildings at the same time from guest Future of Housing blogger Mike Pitts, Deputy Challenge Director at Innovate UK.
Blog – Welcoming innovation in housing: If not now, when?

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Welcoming innovation in housing: If not now, when?

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?
Blog – Deep retrofit: Making homes fit for the future

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Deep retrofit: Making homes fit for the future

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.
Blog – L&Q Group on laying the foundations for the future

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L&Q Group on laying the foundations for the future

With a rapidly accelerating future, both in terms of demand, and the evolution of innovation, what do L&Q see as the greatest challenges ­– and opportunities – ahead?

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