The various innovations identified involve maximizing the use of available assets in the form of both physical and human resources. Some of these solutions, including the conversion of empty properties, cooperative housing, homes which can be incrementally built, and temporary housing indicate the potential to lower housing costs for individuals on low incomes. Others seek to draw on community resources and commitment in finding local solutions through the use of community self-build programmes and provide social value in enhancing employability, wellbeing and community cohesion as well as accommodating people on low incomes. Indeed, solutions may draw on several elements of non-traditional practice, depending on local context and community engagement. A recurrent theme is the value of collective action at a number of levels, including through community-led housing organizations and the mobilization of public support. Such action would signal the need for greater awareness among the public of the structural factors that contribute to the shortage of affordable housing as well as the need for experts to work together across disciplinary boundaries in stimulating innovation. The shortage of supply and the unaffordability of homes are key elements of Britain’s housing crisis. Gina Netto draws on research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to outline six potential solutions which could increase the supply of affordable housing. January 6, 2017 News that in-work poverty is continuing to rise in the UK – and that the high costs of housing are a major contributory factor – demands that, in addition to expanding provision of social housing, more attention must be paid to designing new forms of affordable housing. The shortage of affordable housing should be viewed within the wider context of an extensively documented housing shortage. For some considerable time, housing supply has not kept up with the additional demand generated by increasing life expectancy, immigration and the rise in one-person households.