5 Affordable Housing Priorities for an affordable housing renaissance
A good home is the foundation everyone should enjoy, a human right that too many are living without. As architects we recognise the role we can play in helping to improve housing through design, planning and advocacy. We came together in the build up to the election and are now looking to engage with government to help them in their ambition to deliver the biggest boost to affordable housing in a generation. Please join our campaign.
Architects' Action for Affordable Housing
1. Prioritise Affordable Housing to deliver growth.
OBJECTIVE: More quality affordable Housing built, delivering economic prosperity for all.
HOW:
Identity the barriers to delivery of quality affordable housing-
(examples of undelivered schemes from supporters with explanation of key factors hindering project progress- eg planning, procurement, decision making, viability etc)
We have set out 5 affordable housing priorities where we are working to take positive action with our supporters:
2. Link Net Zero and Affordable Housing policies.
OBJECTIVE: Deliver climate change commitments and reduce fuel poverty through low cost energy efficient affordable housing.
HOW:
Identify forms of best practice that have delivered successful low and zero carbon housing-
(examples of exemplar low carbon schemes from supporters with explanation of key factors that ensured their success)
3. Build a resilient, fair and sustainable industry.
OBJECTIVE: A modernised and skilled housing industry, capable of delivering 1.5m homes over 5 years and more beyond.
HOW:
Help reduce waste in public procurement and processes in order to improve productivity, quality and efficiency- (create best practice templates for ITT, with fairer procurement rules that are in proportion to the opportunity)
4. Create equity in housing supply.
OBJECTIVE: Improving access to affordable housing where they are needed.
HOW:
Champion inclusive place making that demonstrates a diversity of housing offer and exemplary social infrastructure-
(exemplar case studies of successful masterplans and mixed- neighbourhoods)
5. Empower a self-build and community housing drive.
OBJECTIVE: More community focussed housing developments, more direct involvement of local communities, more affordable home ownership.
HOW:
Encourage architects involvement in grass roots supply of custom and self-build homes-
(Design guidance, LDOs, step-by-step guide to enabling development)
Supporters
We are a group of architects with a passion for delivering good quality affordable housing and are acutely aware of the changes needed to deliver more and better housing.
Pitman Tozer Architects
Mae
Grounded
Assael Architecture
Mikhail Riches
Bell Phillips
HTA
Henley Halebrown
Levitt Bernstein
Alison Brooks Arch
Tate & Co
Haworth Tompkins
Maccreanor Lavington Architects
Mole Architects
5th Studio
vPPR Architects
Pollard Thomas Edwards
Haptic
Morris & Co
ZCD Architects
CarverHaggard
BPTW
Allies and Morrison
Formation Architects
Metropolitan Workshop
PRP
nimtim architects
Weston Williamson + Partners
FeatherstoneYoung
Heatherwick Studio
Frank Shaw Associates
Andy Matthews Studio
Pentan Architects
AOC Architecture Ltd
Lyndon Goode Architects
Adam Khan Architects
Urban Mesh Design Ltd
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Ash Sakula
Threefold
Sergison Bates architects
iceni projects
Collective Works
TYPE
Soft Cities
Singh Fudge Architects
Kind & Co Ltd.
Hoskins Architects
StudioUrban
Donald Moir Architect
Weston Williamson
Wendover Partners
Benjamin Wells Studio
Levitate
Tsuruta Architects
LSI Architects
Shepheard Epstein Hunter
Ossian Architects
Goldstein Heather
Design ID
Patriarche
TROLLEY studio
Jane Simpson Access
Ealing Matters
Fuse Architects
London Community Land Trust
XERA
Paddock Johnson Partnership
Pace Architecture
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Archio Ltd
Chetwoods
HBD
Erbar Mattes Architects
COSTA+WOLF
Marchini Curran Associates
Redloft
Edgingtons
SoundBuild
Ann Nisbet Studio
Oberlanders Architects
Re-Format Architects
Studio Act
BuroHappold
HMH Architects Ltd
Tooley Foster
Formative Architects
Busby-Cozic Ltd
Cob and thatch
Studio otto
BakerBrown Studio
Llowarch Llowarch Architects
coombes everitt architects
DLA Architecture
MEPK Architects
dRMM
Design Haus Architecture
Jonathan Hendry Architects
Urban Projects Bureau
spring-consultancy
Matthew Lloyd Architects
One World Design Architects
Spaced Out
DMWR Architects
31/44 Architects
HAL Architects
Smith Scott Mullan
one50studio
FA&D
grahamford architects
Ackronica Arquitetura
doandco studio
Cousins & Cousins
mha-architects
Mike McMahon Studio
polescuk architects
Broadway Malyan
CarneySweeney
Bell Architects
rixon architecture
XCO2
Buttress
Belsize Architects
Stolon Studio
Child Graddon Lewis
fosterperpatidou
DS2
Benham Architects
Arka Works
Rural Solutions Ltd
Neil Wilson Architects
GRID
Studio Act
daab design Architects
Harper Perry
Studio Weave
Proptech Analytics Limited
Collective Architecture Ltd
Quality of Life Foundation
Chapter-haus
Queens Cross Housing Association & Maryhill Housing Association, Glasgow
Urban Projects Bureau
Matthew Lloyd Architects
One World Design Architects
Sml Studio Architecture
Trevor Horne Architects
John Cooper Architecture
Ullmayer Sylvester Architects
Kirkland Fraser Moor
Barbara Weiss Architects
Reed Watts
&U studio
SKArchitects
Max Fordham
Levitate Architecture
Frank Shaw Associates
The Architects
Borough Architects
sJAM architects
MEA Studio
Civic Engineers
Wates Group
Herbert and Taylor
Modernist Estates
Forest architecture
Autor architecture
RCKa
Nick Willson architects
MH Architects
Gibson Thornley
Colin Johns Architecct
POD Architects
KR.eativ: Architects Ltd
Denizen Works
51 architecture
CMI Architecture
Danielarchitecture
SUSD
Collective Architecture
Wilson and MacGarry
Backdoor Housing Coop
Kelly Studio Architects
HawkinsBrown
Abhra
vPPR Architects
Pentan Architects
Baily Garner Architects
Metashape Architects
Britain Remade
Fraser/Livingstone Architects
Proctor & Matthews Architects
Waugh Thistleton Architects
Wilson Gunn Architects
CZWG
Lucy Bullivant & Associates
Camlins
Hayhurst & Co
Brown & Wallace
Jonathan Hendry Architects
stretto architects
Lewis Hubbard Engineering
OURI Labs
Forest community land trust
Gort Scott
Hugo Hardy Architect
Hockaday Consulting Ltd
ECD Architects
meme architects
McGregor White Architects
Tasou Associates
The Parva Workshop
Alan Power Architects Ltd
Mawson Kerr
IBAVI - Balearic Housing Institute
HUTCH design
Avanti Architects
Fourthspace
GRID
South Facing
Architecture Foundation
KLH Sustainability
Cartwright Pickard
Failed Architecture / Loom
Human Nature
Michael Taylor Architects
Urban Radicals
Stitch
Jas Bhalla Works
TRA Studio
Cascade
sargeant-architects
Catja de Haas architects Ltd
Twentysix.
Devlin Architects Ltd
Gary Kellett Architects
NM Jansson Studio
SS4 Architects
Useful Projects / Expedition Engineering
Ksquared
London Forum of Amenity & Civic Societies.
Architecture For (the) Reasonably Ordinary (A.F.R.O)
K Bava Architects Limited
Wates Group
Lincoln Consult
Niall Mclauglin Architects