Roundtable with Amy Rees, Chief Executive, Homes England

The UK faces a persistent housing challenge. Annual housing delivery continues to fall short of the level needed to address long-term under-supply, affordability pressures, and population growth, limiting economic potential. The government has set out an ambition to deliver 1.5 million new homes this Parliament, alongside a stronger focus on regeneration, unlocking stalled sites and accelerating delivery.

Achieving this ambition will depend on effective place-based delivery, closer collaboration across public and private sectors, and the ability to align investment, policy, and delivery capacity at a local level. Homes England plays a central role as the government’s housing and regeneration agency to remove barriers to progress, de-risk development, and crowd in private investment.

This event provides an opportunity to explore how organisations can work together to drive housing delivery and regeneration at pace to support economic growth.

Key discussion points

• What is the single biggest barrier to accelerating housing delivery today?
• What role should Homes England play to unlock stalled or unviable schemes?
• What would enable more effective public–private collaboration at scale?