BLOG: What’s next for the Homes for Us Alliance?

Author: Grace Brown and Morven Oliver

In October 2025, the Homes for Us Alliance held its second Summit. Close to 100 attendees from 50 housing justice organisations came together to reflect on the past year, and coordinate and strategise for 2026. Here’s what we discussed and our priorities for the coming year. 

Setting the scene

Dr Abi O’Connor opened the Summit with an address about the current political moment for the housing movement, before attendees worked together to assess the moment we are in, the power of our movement, and what we are best placed to do together to in order to win. This session also incorporated thinking through how to build solidarities across the housing movement.

Stories of Winning

Later, a number of groups shared inspiring stories of their own campaigns. Greater Manchester Tenants Union shared a case study from their Middleton branch, where members have won over £90,000 in compensation from Riverside Housing Association. Big Power for Little London in Maltby, Rotherham, spoke about winning a promise from the council to finally bring down the derelict housing in the middle of their estate. Food and Solidarity in Newcastle spoke about winning repairs to dangerous properties through collective action targeting the council.

Housing Justice for Everyone

The importance of intersectionality was a key focus of the day: attendees were clear in their demands for access and inclusion, with a particular focus on how to ensure Disabled people are an active part of the movement and how to counter the rise of the far right by building a movement where refugees and migrants are centered. Inclusion London and Migrants Organise ran a session on intersectionality in the struggle for housing dignity for all, focusing on the experiences of Disabled people and migrants.

The Fight for Rent Controls

London Renters Union also led a session on rent control policy, which explored technical aspects around what sort of policy we should be calling for, as well as looking at how rent controls would help to make sure everyone, especially marginalised people, will have greater housing security.

What’s next?

After these sessions, attendees collectively agreed on the practical strategy for the housing movement in 2026. Alliance members decided on a number of priority actions for mobilising around a Spring demonstration for rent controls and accessible public housing, thinking about how to ensure as many people as possible turn out to take part in one big, impactful action. Other members discussed organising strategy, thinking about how to build the power of the Alliance and the wider housing movement in the long term.

The actions agreed upon by the Alliance have been broken into four key areas – campaigns and organising, messaging, policy and training. A more detailed overview of these plans is in our report.

Working groups for each of these areas are now progressing the actions. These groups have been set up to help member organisations of the Alliance work together and collaborate. If you are part of an organisation in the Alliance, and you’d like to get involved in making this work happen, please get in touch by emailing info@homesforus.org.uk.

For a more detailed summary of what happened at the summit, and the plans attendees made together, you can read our full report here.