Insights 2025 launches with a one-day policy conference bringing together policymakers, industry experts, housing professionals, civil society organisations and academics to explore the interconnections between housing, incomes and household behaviours and the impact on health, wealth inequality, and climate change.
Insights 2025: 26 February, 9.30 – 5.30, at the British Academy, London. Register for your place here.
Housing, health and wealth should not be seen as separate aspects of a good life. In the growing debate about the feasibility of meeting the house building target and turning around economic inequality, limited policy attention has been paid to the pivotal role of how housing itself sits at the centre of a range of opportunities and disparities.
Given the critical importance of addressing overlapping societal challenges, what is the growing evidence on housing and its wider welfare effects in human terms? How is the housing crisis harming public health according to new research? Which households and residents are responsible for disproportionately high levels of carbon emissions, and given the exceedingly poor sustainability of old housing stock, what action is needed? How can housing policy, new developments and regulation be combined with other policies to tackle affordability and generate better societal outcomes? Are there key trade-offs?
The event will cover a number of themes:
- Housing, affordability and growing inequality in wealth
- Housing and health, with a focus on mental health
- House prices, lifestyles and carbon emissions
Read the full programme. Insights is free to attend, but advance registration is required.
We will also be launching our Insights 2025 Report at the event. This provides the latest findings on housing related issues based on the Study’s long-term data.
Family and householdsFindings and impactHousingMoney and financesTransport and environment
