The Healthy Homes Hub Winter Ideas Exchange

The Healthy Homes Hub Winter Ideas Exchange is a magazine-style event for housing, health, and academic professionals, bringing together fresh voices and breakthrough ideas on creating healthier homes.

With 1 in 3 social housing residents experiencing mental health challenges, compared with 1 in 7 in the wider population, the agenda puts mental health centre stage, with two dedicated breakout sessions exploring practical ways the sector can respond. Alongside this, you’ll hear directly from tenants, explore cutting-edge research, and see innovation in action... from digital health tools and data-led asset strategies to AI and real-world test homes.

No matter your role, whether frontline, strategic, or policy-focused, you’ll find actionable insights, new learning, and real examples to take back to your organisation. The day is designed to challenge thinking, share best practice, and inspire new solutions for healthier, fairer homes.

Join us as we work to #MakeHousingBetter!

What will you learn:

This event is designed to equip attendees with actionable insights and practical knowledge to drive meaningful improvements in housing and health.

By attending, you’ll gain:

• Fresh resident insights – hear directly from tenants on the real human impact of poor housing, and reflect on what this means for your own organisation.
• Evidence-led strategies – understand the latest research on mental health, economic inactivity, damp and mould, and healthy housing design.
• Practical tools & takeaways – from five data-driven asset tips to a “Mental Health in All Housing Policies” checklist you can apply straight away.
• Innovation in action – discover how digital health tools, Minecraft learning modules, and matched-pair test homes are reshaping practice.
• AI first look – get a sneak preview of HousingAI before its January 2026 launch, with live demos of how it can support policy, compliance, and resident engagement.
• Psychological insights – learn from Dr Dan Bowers on how to embed technology in ways that tenants will actually accept and benefit from.
• Networking & collaboration – connect with housing providers, academics, health leaders, and innovators to share ideas and build partnerships.

10:00 – 10:30
Arrival, coffee & networking

10:30 – 10:40
Welcome & Introduction – Jenny Danson

10:40 – 11:00
A Tenant’s Voice: The Human Cost of Poor Housing
Becky shares her lived experience of disrepair, homelessness, and its impact on her health and wellbeing.

11:00 – 11:10
Grab a drink & move to breakouts

11:10 – 12:10 | Breakout Sessions

• Tackling Damp & Mould Through Minecraft – Steve Wallin, United Living
• Linking Mental Health & Economic Inactivity in Social Housing – Bekah Ryder, Altair
• Data That Delivers: Turning Asset Insights into Better Homes – Meagan Broady & Hayley Hesse, Places for People

12:10 – 12:20
Back to main room

12:20 – 13:15
AI for Healthy Homes: Unlocking Insights with HousingAI
Sneak preview ahead of the January 2026 launch, developed with feedback from Aster, Anchor, Clarion & Hyde.

13:15 – 14:00
Lunch & networking

14:00 – 15:00 | Breakout Sessions

• The Plymouth Living Lab: Co-Designing Digital Health with Residents – Plymouth Community Homes & University of Plymouth
• Latest Research: Inside Loughborough’s Test Homes – Loughborough University
• Homes & Minds: Mental Health in Every Housing Decision – Andy Bell, Centre for Mental Health

15:00 – 15:15
Break

15:15 – 16:15
Making Technology Work for People: Psychology, Housing & Health
Keynote by Dr Dan Bowers, University of South Wales

16:30 – 18:30
Networking Drinks (sponsored by Zehnder)

Attendance is FREE as part of Healthy Homes Hub membership.

Places are limited to 100

Join us as we work to #MakeHousingBetter!

To learn more about becoming a Healthy Homes Hub member, contact: [email protected]

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