{"id":8936,"date":"2016-04-06T17:32:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:38:26","slug":"london-affordable-housing-summit-tackling-property-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/london-affordable-housing-summit-tackling-property-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"London Affordable Housing Summit: tackling property crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you live in London you definitely know that housing is one of the\u00a0hot topics and property \u00a0is one key business and investment. The prices jumped more than 20% for the last two years. Although government is trying to introduce various programs, like help-to-buy scheme, in order to make housing more affordable, the prices still remain high and tend to grow. Below\u00a0map\u00a0introduces the range of monthly rent according to various locations within London.<\/p>\n

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Source: sceneofreason.com<\/p>\n

Keeping all this in mind, it is vital to maintain a solid discussion and to create an influence social impact reflection to policy-makers in order to tackle housing issue. Uprise London is one\u00a0organisation, A CIC, that specialises in affordable housing and in developing truly affordable homes for Londoners, utilising a commercial social impact development model to fund homes for social use.<\/p>\n

Uprise London in association with OpenBusinessCouncil and IntelligentHQ are holding a housing summit to discuss the London Housing crisis, and how property developers, investors, industry experts can come with an agenda for tackling this problem. In the Summit\u00a0the four main mayoral candidates will also present for seven minutes their strategy and views on Affordable Homes. This is the item highest on all Londoners\u2019 minds but a topic that affects all businesses and investors. With unstable tenancies and crushing rent increases, how can London function without a secure plan for housing infrastructure?<\/p>\n

There is a recognized crisis in affordable housing across London. Politicians of every hue are talking about their policies but they aren\u2019t talking about how funding these policies works, who benefits and how they will implement their grand designs.<\/p>\n

This Summit represents over a million Londoners and it\u2019s time for our views to be counted and acted upon<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Social housing stock is being depleted and young people can\u2019t even access the first rung of the property ladder. Something needs to be done to increase the stock of affordable homes to rent or to buy for Londoners who live and work here and invest their lives in making this a capital city. Uprise, an ethical affordable housing developer thinks it\u2019s time to stop talking and time to take action.<\/p>\n

Over half a day, Uprise London and OpenBusinessCouncil and IntelligentHQ brings together key stakeholders, citizens, policymakers, think-tanks, action people and all who care and want to participate in creating a London Affordable Homes Plan for the future mayor. This plan will be presented to the next Mayor to help solve this housing crisis and inputted into his\/her Plan for London.<\/p>\n

There are four workshops to participate in and to help form future policy at this summit:<\/p>\n