Housing Governance is the NHF's annual event for governance teams and board members. This event is a chance to network and engage in meaningful learning with sector colleagues. Join us on 19 June in London for our 2025 event.

Gain mastery over legislative changes and best practice in housing. Explore topics like Inspection, the effects of mergers and board recruitment. Learn how leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and champion resident voice.

Housing Governance 2025 is the essential event for the evolving governance role. Use this conference to build your support network and if you’re new to housing governance join our Housing Governance Masterclass on 12 June. Also, our 30-minute professional mentoring will return to Housing Governance 2025.

Read about last year's conference further down.

What's new in Housing Governance 2025?

Familiar and unfamiliar topics

Delegates will explore how to use feedback from Regulatory Inspections, resident involvement in mergers and undertaking an effective board review. We'll explore emerging topics like the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and how to track culture in your organisation. You'll see this and much more on our agenda due to launch in February.

What to expect at this year's conference:

• Using feedback from regulatory inspections to improve the organisation.​
• Resident involvement in mergers.​
• Governance teams supporting the use of AI to create efficiency.​
• Effective ways for the board to track culture within an organisation.​
• Ways of including tenant voice in formal governance structures.​
• Undertaking an effective board review and good practice on board recruitment.​
• Partnerships and corporate projects.​
• The role of governance in supporting EDI integration within the organisation.​
• Ways to avoid tenancy fraud in the sector.​

The Housing Governance Masterclass

This year delegates have the option of booking onto a pre-conference online event on 12 June between 10:00 and 15:00. The Housing Governance Masterclass is for those in their first housing governance role. This online training session will introduce you to key concepts in governance and regulation, and prepare you for the conference.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Housing Governance 2025 accounts towards your CPD. All delegates who attend Housing Governance 2025 will be contacted after the conference about receiving their CPD certificate.

What happened at Housing Governance last year?

Housing Governance 2024 took place at an interesting time for the sector. We came together during a general election campaign and shortly after the proactive enforcement of consumer gradings.

Our first session explored what this new regulatory landscape looks like and how it represents a "step-change for resident engagement". We then spoke about regulatory inspections and speakers generally agreed that a clear and well-documented set of policies and behaviours is best practice.

For the rest of the morning and after lunch we entered our breakout sessions. We heard from experts in EDI, artificial intelligence and more. We explored potential outcomes of the election and what they would mean for housing governance.

We then returned to the main stage to talk about resident engagement. Our panelists spoke meaningfully about the importance of open communication with residents and using channels they want to use. Housing Governance then ended with an inspiring session with Sharon Amesu, who spoke about resilience in challenging times.

This conference was also a chance to meet and share ideas outside of sessions. We want to thank everyone who attended, spoke to other delegates and exhibitors and helped make yesterday a vibrant and insightful event.

We also want to thank our wonderful chair Kelsey Walker for expertly guiding our conversations throughout the day.