The Chief Executive of the Institute is Natalie Elphicke OBE, former independent government adviser and co-author of the Elphicke-House Report on the role of councils in housing supply.
The HFI launched a six-month government backed pilot research programme on infrastructure which brought together key players from private and public sectors.
[7] The report set out an eight-point plan to get Britain building infrastructure in the right places and at the right time in order to support the housebuilding industry.
[8] Following this report, Chancellor Philip Hammond welcomed planning reform in his 2017 Autumn Budget and announced a review to be conducted by Oliver Letwin.
At the end of October 2018, the Letwin Review ultimately determined that slow build out was caused by a lack of diversity in new housing and the incentive of housebuilders to restrict supply to avoid reducing prices.