London, UK – 11 Dec, 2025 – Homes England has published its Strategic Plan 2025–2030, setting out how the agency will use its expertise, funding, resources, and influence to accelerate the delivery of high-quality, safe, and sustainable homes, while supporting vibrant and inclusive communities across England. The plan is framed around six strategic objectives that together aim to tackle systemic barriers to housing delivery, expand the supply of social and affordable homes, and attract new capital into the sector.
The first two objectives focus on increasing supply at scale: significantly increasing new housing delivery across all tenures and delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable homes in a generation. Homes England positions itself as a key delivery partner for the government’s ambition to build 1.5 million homes during this parliament, with a particular emphasis on mixed-tenure development and regeneration-led schemes. A third objective targets the mobilisation of institutional investment for housing and mixed-use projects, ensuring that new interventions also generate appropriate financial returns and support long-term market stability.
Collaboration and place-based working are central themes within the plan. Homes England commits to strengthening partnerships with mayors, local leaders, and other stakeholders to enable development, regeneration, and local economic growth, ensuring that interventions are tailored to the specific needs of places. The remaining objectives focus on fostering innovation and supporting a dynamic, diverse, and sustainable housing and built environment sector, alongside a clear commitment to ensuring that homes are safe, secure, and decent, with residents properly safeguarded. The Strategic Plan directly responds to partner feedback calling for more tailored support, greater flexibility, longer-term funding, and the ability to support delivery at scale, building on commitments made in the 2025 Spending Review.
Alongside the Strategic Plan, Homes England has published an Investment Roadmap that sets out its investment themes, priorities, and the types of interventions expected to guide decision-making over the coming years. The roadmap provides early visibility ahead of a full Investment Prospectus expected in early 2026, helping partners understand how and where they can work with the agency. It also outlines the scope of the forthcoming National Housing Delivery Fund (NHDF) and confirms the creation of a new subsidiary, the National Housing Bank (NHB), which will play a central role in deploying debt, equity, and guarantees from April 2026, subject to HM Treasury approval.
To support more responsive and locally attuned delivery, Homes England will significantly strengthen its regional teams and appoint experienced leaders to head each region. These teams will work closely with mayors, local authorities, housing associations, and regeneration partners to align funding, land, and expertise with local priorities, ensuring that support is tailored to the needs of different markets and communities. The combination of a clearer strategic framework, an expanded investment toolkit, and enhanced regional presence is intended to provide partners with greater certainty and flexibility as they plan and deliver housing and regeneration schemes.
In an official press release, Housing Secretary, Steve Reed stated: “Homes England is playing a key role in building more new homes by bringing in essential private investment and supporting the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation. The launch of their new plan today kicks off a new phase of working together to invest in housebuilding at scale that will help us bring the housing crisis to an end.”
Pat Ritchie CBE, Chair of Homes England, said: “This Strategic Plan marks the start of a new chapter of strengthened collaboration, innovation, and delivery at scale. Through partnership and a deep understanding of local needs, we can create a much-needed step change in the delivery of new homes, including social housing, and affordable communities– directly addressing the needs of current and future generations and ensuring everyone can have a safe place to live and thrive.”
Amy Rees CB, Chief Executive of Homes England, said: “I am proud to lead this organisation as we build on previous successes, embark on delivering our new Strategic Plan and continue our preparations to launch our new funds and the National Housing Bank by April 2026.”
“Our team will work with focus, pride, dedication and skill in equal measure, alongside thousands of partners across the country, to accelerate the delivery of homes, infrastructure and places that communities want and need.”
“Alongside our commitment to national expertise and the creation of a specialist National Housing Bank, we are significantly strengthening our regional teams to ensure support is tailored to the needs of places and partner organisations. This includes the imminent appointment of experienced leaders to head up each team, working hand-in-glove with mayors, local leaders and the wider housing and regeneration sector.”
