The Housing Forum @housingforum.org.uk A Quality Home For All -
The cross-sector, public & private #ukhousing industry membership body representing 150+ organisations.
RT ≠ endorsement
https://housingforum.org.uk/
Transport for New Homes @transportfornewhomes.org.uk We believe new housing should be planned in a way that allows residents to walk, cycle and use public transport in their daily lives. transportfornewhomes.org.uk
Dermot Mckibbin @dermotmckibbin.bsky.social Member of the South East London Community Energy Co-operative : Interested in climate change policy and the Greening of Bromley Council's local plan.
Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social Housing, Rugby, Gym.
Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social Academic lawyer at the University of Bristol, interested in lots, including inquests & death, social welfare, housing/homelessness, planning, administrative and constitutional law. Firm believer in nuance and context.
Hana Loftus @hanaloftus.bsky.social Planner, designer, co-director at HAT Projects, chair of Creative Colchester. Also food and fungi and music. www.hatprojects.com, some of my journalism at https://muckrack.com/hana-loftus/articles, more writing and podcasting scattered around the internet.
TrundleAlong @trundlealong.bsky.social Economics Lecturer, retired. Economics for past students & colleagues + accessibility, sustainability, natural history, history, health. Retweet ≠ agreement
Paul Brannen @paulbrannenne.bsky.social Author: 'Timber! How wood can help save the world from climate breakdown'. Published 27 June 2024. Available https://www.agendapub.com/page/detail/timber/?k=9781788217354
Public Affairs Director CEI-Bois
Former UK MEP
Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social Anglo-Italian. 2nd Gen Immigrant. Doing #Digital in #Planning and #Government. #Strategist. #Advisor. Pensatore profondo apparentemente 🤷♂️) On a #yoga mat, playing bass or dancing. ❤️ red wine and #digital #politics, #localgov, #policy #adhd 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇪🇺
Mark Fessey @markfessey.bsky.social All round local plan enthusiast (not just housing targets), mainly looking to point out that whilst plan-making is complicated, the underlying principle (balancing interests spatially) is clear.
tomemurtha @tomemurtha.bsky.social Born and raised in a council house. Worked in social housing since 1976. Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by @UniBirmingham in 2009 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. Retired.
Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social Neighbourhoods, community, social housing, poverty, art, film, humour, puns, photography, cycling, climate
Steve Hilditch @stevehilditch.bsky.social Housing. Labour-ish Politics. Geography. Newcastle United.
North Paddington/Queens Park for 50 years but still a Geordie.
#nufc @redbrickblog @labourhousing
Liz Lainé @lizlaine.bsky.social Sustainable homes, resilient communities, strategic #retrofit, data geekery, policy wonkery and the good life. #ukhousing #energyefficiency #proptech
Matthew Spry @mspry.bsky.social Senior Director and Head of London Office at Lichfields, planning and development consultancy | Non Executive Director at Repton Property Devts | Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences | Empty vessel
Ben Twomey @bentwomeyuk.bsky.social Former Chief Executive of Generation Rent, presenter on Policing TV, views my own.
Philip Taylor @philipjtaylor.bsky.social Commercial and Agricultural Property Solicitor. Companion of John Ruskin's Guild of St George.
MichaelLondonSF @michaellondonsf.bsky.social semi-retired / activist on London housing and planning / UCL Bartlett / grandfather JustSpace.org.uk michaeledwards.org.uk
I don't follow people with empty bios.
Mary Elkington 💙💛🇺🇦 @maryindevon.bsky.social Town Planner and Geographer (MRTPI). Used to work at NASA - planning IS harder than rocket science. We can do better.
Tony Smith ACIH #SocialHousing @housingitguy.bsky.social Tony Smith - #UKhousing ICT chap https://bit.ly/3FjZTHN ,Canon 5D LRPS 📸 https://twitter.com/HotpixUK 🚴CommLibrary bod https://goo.gl/yYJKCj #SocialHousing
Jamie Ratcliff @jamrat.co.uk Interested in politics, policy, communities, making the UK better, #UKHousing, Norwich City FC and whisky.
Faisal Butt @fizz2701.bsky.social Housing Professional | NED at Southway Housing Trust🕵🏽♂️ | CIH Fellow 👓| School Governor HathershawC 🏫 | Co-founder UKHousingFast 🍽️
Susie D @susiedlon.bsky.social Housing nerd, working for Trust for London (@trustforlondon.bsky.social). I talk about tackling the housing crisis, #TemporaryAccommodation and the #LondonHousingPanel a lot. Mum. Cat feeder. Christian. Randomly opinionated.
Marley Miller @marleygmiller.bsky.social Designing new ways to get affordable housing built, Thriving investments. Former economic adviser to Rachel Reeves and Treasury official.
Justin Bates KC @justinbates.bsky.social Housing lawyer, editor of the Encyclopedia of Housing Law, co-author Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act and Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act.
Katharine Swindells @kathyswinds.bsky.social deputy features editor at inside housing • also seen in new statesman, guardian, inews, boston globe, teen vogue • kath.swindells@insidehousing.co.uk • she/her
Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk Structural engineer. Stadium design. Emergency shelter specialist & ex-humanitarian aidworker. Interested in good people-centred design, equity & (climate) justice.
Mike Brewer @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation, CPAG Trustee & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). 'Cool, calm analysis' (More or Less, 8/10/25). He/him
Lee Melin @leemelin.bsky.social Town planner currently working in consultancy. Like wandering about looking at stuff. #NFFC
Gerraint @gerraint.bsky.social Building affordable homes with @PlatformHg.bsky.social #Mentor
Non Exec Director Ongo & Chair @chcymru.bsky.social
RAF veteran. Hates cucumber.
Gair-eye-nt #Cycling
Peter Levell @peterlevell.bsky.social Economist. Deputy Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social.
https://sites.google.com/view/peter-levell/home
Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj.org 🤝 🏘️ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all.
🔗 https://linkin.bio/aforhj
Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
Jessica Studdert @jesstud.bsky.social Always searching for good coffee.
Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
Tom Darling @darlingtom.bsky.social Director of the Renters’ Reform Coalition.
Posting personal views on housing and politics.
Claire B @climatebrown.bsky.social Housing, Climate change and all things Sustainability. She/her born at 338.99 ppm!
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Lucy Davies @essexhousing.bsky.social Interested in Housing Law, legal aid, access to justice and other stuff. Legal advice at Essex Law Clinic, Lecturer at Essex Law School.
Red Brick @redbrickblog.bsky.social The place for progressive housing debate
| Get in touch at RedBrick@labourhousing.org
Alex Toal @alextoal.bsky.social Editor, Red Brick blog | Send pitches to RedBrick@labourhousing.org!
MHCLG Answers @mhclg-answers.bsky.social Bot account posts whenever the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government answers or corrects an answer to a written parliamentary question. Monitored by librarians at the House of Commons Library.
Chandos. @chandos64.bsky.social Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
Law, leaseholds, property valuation, and Oxford commas.
European. Lagomorphs, bees, tea & cake.
Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley. Member of the Business and Trade select committee. Proudly repping British industry and the Black Country. Trade unionist, mama, runner, reader
QTs closed, replies open
James Riding @jamesriding.bsky.social Living Markets Editor at Inside Housing | Book reviews in The Times | Press Awards 30 Under 30 2024 | james.riding@oceanmedia.co.uk
Gráinne Cuffe @grainnecuffe.bsky.social Deputy news editor at Inside Housing
grainne.cuffe@oceanmedia.co.uk
James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social Increasingly bionic 🦾🦿 Vice Chair, Patients' Voices Royal College Anaesthetists + Faculty of Pain Medicine | Former int'l civil servant + NGOs on human rights etc | ר׳ ייִד
https://linktr.ee/jamesingram
Daniel Hewitt @danielhewittitv.bsky.social Investigations Editor: ITV News. Author: Left to Rot (2026) out now.
Presenter: The Trapped (podcast). Make documentaries, including Surviving Squalor (ITV). West Brom fan.
Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities, working on Housing, Planning, Devolution. Stuff on Ukraine + Eastern Europe and Japan + East Asia too. YIMBY. Views own etc. 🥑🇺🇦
John Myers @johnrmyers.bsky.social Director @yimbyalliance.org • Housing and other infrastructure • yimbyalliance.org
Aileen Evans @bushbell.bsky.social Past Pres & Vice Chair Chartered Institute of Housing. Recovering HA CEO. Twins & Step Mum. Loves Cricket, Tea & Bach. Loathes injustice and believes everyone has a right to a good home.
Kwajo Tweneboa @kwajo.bsky.social The landlords’ Landlord - Tearing the singlets of Housing Providers across the U.K. and more 🇬🇧🧏🏽♂️ Email: Kwajohousing@gmail.com
hqn @hqnmedia.bsky.social We provide fast, practical advice – essential for busy housing organisations.
Rob Gershon @simplicitly.bsky.social Former Carer
Thinkhouse.org.uk @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social Thinkhouse is a free online library of research pieces, policy publications and case studies that propose ways to increase the amount and quality of the UK's housing stock and the related economic, social and community benefits of doing this.
Noble Francis @noblefrancis.bsky.social Economics Director at the CPA, PhD Econometrician & Honorary Professor at the UCL Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. Tweets on construction & housebuilding.
Historic posts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fnoblefrancis/recent-activity/all/
@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social
Matt Downie @mattdownie.bsky.social Trying this out…desperately seeking sanity.
CEO of Crisis. Chair of London Youth Theatre.
Lewis Herbert @lewisherbert.bsky.social Helping tackle UK housing & homeless crisis, the root of too many evils.
Labour Cambridge Council leader 2014 to 2021 - city of considerable magic.
Peace & equity, Hills & coast, Photoing & laughter too.
Band above is definitely not Genesis reformed.
Frank Reif @frankreif.bsky.social Mainly here for climate stuff. Decarbonizing heating and cooling.
Building science / efficiency / retrofit / mechanical engineering etc.
Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social Deputy chief exec at Generation Rent. Geordie. Mostly housing, sometimes other policy stuff and daft observations. Employer doesn't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social Geeky YIMBY liberal
Housing, politics, liberalism and growth
Oxford UK
Only lurking here for now
Julia Thrift @juliathrift.bsky.social People, places, public health
Lives in south London, interested in the world...
My own views, sometimes here: https://authory.com/juliathrift
Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social Personal account | Director of Built Environment & Highways, London Borough of Haringey | Place, active travel, climate, diversity | Best Planning Authority 2024! 🏆 www.linkedin.com/in/robzowski
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social Deputy ed at Inside Housing
Kate de Selincourt @katedes.bsky.social Writer - sustainable building and the environment
Paul Swinney @paulswinney.bsky.social Chief Economist at The Data City. Formerly of Centre for Cities. Posting mainly about economics.
CIH policy @cihpolicy.bsky.social CIH's policy & external affairs team. Influencing #ukhousing policy and helping professionals to improve their knowledge.
Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
Mark Waghorn @mwaghorn.bsky.social Architect and designer of compact homes using natural and locally sourced materials
mwd.wales
castancabins.com
Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social @bigissue.com journalist. Writes about housing, homelessness and a bit of everything else. Story tips to liam[dot]geraghty[at]bigissue[dot]com. Personal posts will be about video games.
Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social keen on there being more houses for everyone. crunching numbers and thinking about urban problems @centreforcities.bsky.social; community unionising @acornunion.bsky.social; other bits
Alison Wallace @alisonwyork.bsky.social Emeritus Professor, School of Business Society, University of York
Housing, shared ownership, homeownership, private renting, algorithmic technologies and housing, social policy
Robert Colvile @rcolvile.bsky.social Director of CPS, editor-in-chief of CapX, columnist for The Sunday Times, author of The Great Acceleration. Politics, policy and parenting.
Rachael Williamson @rachaelwhsg.bsky.social Director of policy, communications & external affairs Chartered Institute of Housing. Trustee Citizens Advice East Herts. Former civil servant HM Govt. Passionate about social justice and quality, affordable homes as a foundation for life.
Victor da Cunha 🇵🇹🇬🇧 @victor-dacunha.bsky.social Chief Customer Officer, Notting Hill Genesis. Chair of Local Space HA and Board Member of NHF. Share thoughts mainly on #housing some #music #arsenal & #Portuguese footie when it matters.
Polly Neate @pollyneate.bsky.social Strategist, coach, mentor. Civil society leadership. Former CEO Shelter & Women’s Aid. NED Young Women’s Trust, Women in Sport, Wessex Local Medical Committees, feminist, paraclimber, podcaster, writer, speaker
@cjaworrall.bsky.social @cjaworrall.bsky.social
Paula Barker MP @paulabarkermp.bsky.social Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree. Co-Chair of Ending Homelessness All Party Parliamentary Group
Richard Berridge 🦋 @resirichard.bsky.social Humanist. More homes. Everywhere. For Everyone! Housing optimist. Ex CEO UKSFA. Founder Board Member BTR Taskforce. Tri-tenure realist. Hopeful flâneur. Semi-pro daydreamer but generally just a bit fucked off.
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social
UK Green Building Council @ukgbc.bsky.social The official account of the UK Green Building Council |
The voice of our sustainable built environment.
https://ukgbc.org/
Alex Morrish @alexmorrish.bsky.social Housing Manager. CIH member. Humanist. Tweets mostly about #ukhousing, environment and systems thinking. All views my own.
TPAS Cymru @tpascymru.bsky.social Representing tenant voice and engagement across Wales. TPAS Cymru supports tenants and landlords through training, support & policy development to ensure every voice is heard.
Tom Chance @tomchance.bsky.social CEO of the Community Land Trust Network / Rhwydwaith Ymddiriedolaethau
Tir Cymunedol https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
Priced Out @pricedout.bsky.social The Campaign for Affordable House Prices
Home Builders Federation @homebuildersfed.bsky.social We are the voice of the home building industry, representing developers in England and Wales.
Social Housing @socialhousing.bsky.social The leading publication for finance, business and governance in affordable housing, www.socialhousing.co.uk
SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social SHAC is a campaign group linking tenants, renters, shared owners, and leaseholders living in homes owned by social and private landlords. Together we campaign for more public housing & to improve housing conditions.
@SharonStevenage @sharonstevenage.bsky.social Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Matthew Pennycook MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich | Minister of State for Housing and Planning | Email: matthew.pennycook.mp@parliament.uk
Melissa York @melyorktt.bsky.social Assistant Property Editor at The Times & Sunday Times. Proud #housingnerd and dachshund obsessive. Message me or email me at melissa.york@thetimes.co.uk
Simon White @simoncomms.bsky.social Built environment and construction industry expert. PR and data communications. United Kingdom.
Alexandra Gibson @alexmariag.bsky.social Award-winning Events @cihhousing.bsky.social | Lead associate @ Addressing Domestic Abuse (CIC) | Talking all things #ukhousing. Mama to the most handsome boy & cutest 🐶. Beer drinker, gym goer, poetry lover. Kindness always. #HousingCommunitySummit
Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) is the professional body for people who work in housing, with members worldwide.
Richard Hyde @rohhyde.bsky.social
Paul Smith @housingpaul.bsky.social “Housing expert and social historian”
Shelter @sheltercharity.bsky.social We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Join us in ending the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and our communities. #FightForHome
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Policy and Public Affairs at The Housing Forum. Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Views are my own. Cambridge based. https://housingforum.org.uk/