As the kids my husband teaches in a secondary school in London prepare to take their GCSEs in a few weeks, some of them are doing so without a place to call home.

1 in 23 children in London are homeless – that’s one child in every classroom. That sobering fact made me stop and reflect when we talked about it over the kitchen table. Sadly, the scale of the housing crisis across country means this is the reality for too many kids and families, and we need to do more, together, to make a difference.

At Hyde, we started building the largest number of homes in our history in 2022/23. We’re on site with around 6,500 new homes today.