Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani writes in the Church Times this week about her recent visit to Birmingham to visit some housing projects in progress and see partnerships between the council, Church and other local communities pushing ahead essential housing work in the city.

The Bishop for Housing, The Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani reflects on the Church of England’s call to address the housing crisis through creativity and collective responsibility in her blog for the National Housing Federation Website: Imagination and Sacrifice: Why Our Housing Vision Needs Both.

Foremost among the recommendations of the Coming Home report was to create a long-term, cross party national housing strategy. Early in 2023, Bishop Guli convened a small steering group in the House of Lords to explore how a national housing strategy might be developed. The group included a Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Crossbench peer.