Delivering low cost home ownership involves overcoming wide ranging challenges beyond increasing the supply of affordable housing. Access to equity products that meet people’s needs is crucial as is the need to keep pace with the UK housing market as it continues to move further beyond the reach of more and more people.

This Low Cost Home Ownership conference gets to grips with the ways and means of making home ownership achievable for millions more people. A series of sessions explore issues at the heart of the matter, including:

• The Government’s strategic policy to expand the opportunity to own
• Addressing the low take up of the HomeBuy schemes – improving public understanding and marketability
• Community land trust solutions to affordable home ownership
• Engaging lenders - the difficulties involved and ways to overcome these
• Plugging the affordability gap in rural communities
• The need for larger units to be made available through LCHO
  

This conference brings together professionals from local authorities, housing associations, RSLs and central government to help identify ways we can help move affordable home ownership a step closer to becoming a reality.
 
Why attend?

• Hear the latest on the future for Low Cost Home Ownership – expanding availability and meeting housing needs
• Learn more about the barriers to increasing home ownership and how these can be overcome
• Identify ways to improve the marketability and take up of low cost home ownership schemes
• Get to grips with solutions offered by Community Land Trusts and how such arrangements can capture benefits for local people in the longer term
• Find out more about addressing the issue of affordability in rural communities and overcoming barriers to engaging lenders
• Explore ways to ensure that low cost home ownership meets the needs of families and what needs to be done to ensure larger units are available through LCHO

Who should attend?

Representatives from local authorities, housing associations, RSLs, Government departments and agencies, private sector developers, consultants, housing charities and advisers to local authorities.

Housing Corporation Speaker:

Investing in Development – Increasing the Supply of Affordable Homes

Fiona MacGregor, Head of Programme Delivery

To Book:

For further information please refer to the Capita website.  To book, please complete this form.