In 2023 the Church of England and the Nationwide Foundation decided to join forces to collaborate with the aim of offering a distinctive intervention in the housing policy debate. They approached the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) to work with them on this. School for Policy Studies, Professor Alex Marsh, a CaCHE co-investigator and its systems theme lead, collaborated with CaCHE Director Professor Ken Gibb and Dr Alice Earley, both of Glasgow University, and David Orr CBE, former CEO of the National Housing Federation, to support the Church of England and the Nationwide Foundation to deliver the project.

The main output of this project – the report Homes for All: a vision for England’s housing system – is published today. The report has been welcomed and received public support from a broad range of stakeholders in the housing policy community.

The report is distinctive in several ways, three characteristics that stand out are outlined in this accompanying blog by Alex Marsh.

The report launched today covers a lot of ground, but much of the supporting analysis and argument has not been included. There will therefore be a complementary academic report published through CaCHE in due course. This offers a broader discussion of the systems and futures thinking that sits behind the main report.