IfG DevoLab #4: How can mayors increase the supply of affordable homes?

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The IfG DevoLab is dedicated to exploring the innovations enabled by devolution, learning from the results, and sharing the lessons so that places can take better decisions about how to use devolved powers and budgets.  

Join us on 25 February in Manchester (or online) for the fourth IfG DevoLab event, where three speakers will set out how the powers and profile of mayors are being used to increase the supply of affordable homes within their regions.

The three case studies being presented at IfG DevoLab #4 are:

• ‘Increasing the supply of affordable homes in the West of England’, by Stephen Peacock, Chief Executive of the West of England Combined Authority
• ‘From housing growth to good growth - experiences delivering housing growth in Greater Manchester’, by Andrew McIntosh, Director of Sustainable Growth & Infrastructure at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority  
• ‘Supporting regions to increase the supply of affordable homes’, by Danielle Gillespie, Executive Regional Director for the North West at Homes England

The three speakers will be joined by Ben Denton, Head of Strategic Growth – Affordable Housing at L&G, for a broader discussion of the benefits of devolution and mayoral leadership for this agenda, how mayors can support the government make progress toward its challenging house-building targets, and how further devolution could help accelerate the supply of affordable homes.  

This event will be chaired by Akash Paun, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.

Insights from this discussion will inform a published policy briefing containing the three case studies and a synthesis of key lessons.

The Institute for Government would like to thank L&G for its support of this event and for its wider support of the IfG DevoLab series. 

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