Thu 4 June: Legatum Institute: "London Needs to Build the Right Housing—Not Just More Housing"

"The Legatum Institute and Create Streets will host a livestreamed panel with Evan Davis, housing experts and some of London's prospective mayoral candidates, as they discuss how to solve the capital's housing crisis and boost well-being by building homes people want to live in"

"In some ways the solution to the housing crisis is easy: build more, lots more. But, this has never been politically easy—hence the plethora of programmes to boost demand not supply.

"So the debate moves on to: how do we build homes that people love so that unlocking that supply becomes politically easier? Do we need to regulate what we build based on people’s preferences, with less focus on how we build it? And is there a way to solve London’s housing crisis without the controversy that we are currently creating?

Welcome

• Cristina Odone, Director of Communications, Legatum Institute

Introductory Remarks and Presentation

• Nicholas Boys Smith, Director, Create Streets; Legatum Fellow

Speaker

• Evan Davis, Presenter, BBC Newsnight

Panellists

• David Lammy, MP for Tottenham; London Mayoral Candidate
• Ivan Massow, financial services entrepreneur; London Mayoral Candidate
• Yolande Barnes, Director, World Research, Savills
• Toby Lloyd, Head of Policy, Shelter UK

Details

• Thursday, 4 June, 2015, 18:00 for 18:15 start, followed by a drinks reception
• Legatum Institute, 11 Charles Street, London, W1J 5DW

RSVP

• This event is now full, however, the discussion will be livestreamed. Details below. For enquiries, please contact Emily Callaghan.

Livestream

• The discussion will be livestreamed here at 18:15 BST on Thursday, 4 June 2015.
• Follow on Twitter #Homes4London @LegatumInst @CreateStreets