The Monitor: Housing 2025 Series One – One Year on from Labour Government

The Monitor, produced by Housing 2025, explores the challenges and opportunities in social and affordable housing investment under the Labour government. Filmed around the Housing 2025 conference, the series captures perspectives from leading voices across housing, investment, planning, and development.
Housing LIN CEO Jeremy Porteus appears in episodes 3, 4, and 5, sharing insights on financing confidence, innovative delivery models, and the sector’s outlook for the next 12 months.
Each episode runs approximately 10 minutes and is designed for decision-makers in housing, finance, and policy.
Series Episodes
Episode 1: The Pledge and the pressure
- Overview: Labour’s housing ambitions vs sector realities of long-standing under-delivery, regulatory debt, and financial caution.
- Key Themes: Policy promises, sector expectations.
Episode 2: Planning unblocked
- Overview: Reforming a planning system that continues to delay investment and delivery.
- Key Themes: Planning reform, streamlining approvals.
Episode 3: Financing confidence (Jeremy Porteus featured)
- Overview: Restoring capital confidence by addressing rent policy, remediation costs, and funding cycles.
- Key Themes: Investment climate, funding mechanisms, sector stability.
Episode 4: Innovation with intent (Jeremy Porteus featured)
- Overview: Exploring smarter, faster, and greener delivery models to meet growing housing demand.
- Key Themes: Innovation, sustainability, scale delivery.
Episode 5: Conclusions and predictions (Jeremy Porteus featured)
- Overview: Reflections on Labour’s first year in housing and sector leaders’ outlook for the next 12 months.
- Key Themes: Opportunities, challenges, sector readiness