The call to recognise affordable housing as infrastructure — made recently in Social Housing — is timely and compelling. Housing isn’t a luxury; it’s essential to economic growth, healthy communities and social stability. But too often the infrastructure framing focuses on cities and big towns, leaving rural communities at risk of being overlooked. That has to change. Rural affordable housing is infrastructure too — and the Rural Housing Enabler (RHE) programme shows how treating it as such...

Our event on Friday 5th December at NMITE. The event went extremely well, with thoughtful discussions and a wide range of ideas shared throughout the day. We are currently compiling the full notes from the session and will make these available on our website soon so all can see the ideas, concerns and opportunities that emerged. If you haven’t already signed up to the Steering Group, please consider joining. We welcome diverse perspectives as all will be extremely valuable as we shape the...