Camden's Housing Delivery Taskforce
Tackling Camden’s housing crisis
More than 8,000 people are on Camden’s housing waiting list, and many families live in overcrowded homes.
To help tackle this, we’ve set up the Camden Housing Delivery Taskforce. It will guide how we deliver more high-quality, affordable homes and make sure housing meets local needs now and in the future.
Our goal
Through our Housing Investment Strategy 2025 to 2030, we’re committed to:
- building thousands of new council homes
- improving housing standards across the borough
- creating a fairer, more sustainable housing system
Backed by our £2.3 billion Community Investment Programme, we aim to build 4,850 new homes, including 1,800 for social rent. So far, we’ve delivered more than 1,700 new homes,. Around 70% of these are affordable.
The taskforce will help us go further and faster by:
- accelerating housebuilding
- ensuring high design and environmental standards
- supporting strong, mixed communities
Who’s involved
The taskforce brings together housing experts, community representatives and council leaders.
Co-chairs of the taskforce
- Dame Karen Buck, former Labour MP for Westminster North
- Councillor Nasrine Djemai, Camden’s Cabinet Member for New Homes and Community Investment
Members of the taskforce
- Amarjit Bains, Programme Director for Homelessness at Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
- Bek Seely, Chair of Euston Housing Delivery Group and Founder of Place Partners
- Ben Rogers, Distinguished Policy Fellow, London School of Economics
- Gabriela Tocu, Head of Advice, Citizens Advice Camden
- Milli-Rose Rubin, Founder, Cross-Word Lyric
- Pam Bhamra, Director of Resident Services, Origin Housing
- Rob Beacroft, Director, Lateral
- Stevan Tenant, Managing Director of Development, Ballymore Group
What the taskforce will do
The taskforce will meet 4 times between October 2025 and January 2026 to:
- consider evidence
- hear from residents and experts
- develop recommendations
The first meeting took place on Thursday 16 October 2025.
Across the 4 sessions, the taskforce will:
- review evidence on housing need, affordability and homelessness
- assess Camden’s current and planned housing delivery programmes
- explore how to increase genuinely affordable homes, especially social rent and larger family homes
- consider planning, land use and pressures such as the Knowledge Quarter and student housing
- develop realistic, evidence-based recommendations for the future of housing in Camden
A final report will be presented to Camden’s Cabinet in spring 2026, and we’ll publish the findings for residents to read.