Loo offers a unique insight into the relationship between ‘home’ and mental health and featured on the Channel 4 social experiment which explored loneliness and the housing crisis across different generations. Loo’s perspective highlights one of the reasons why building homes is not just about bricks and mortar but creating places where people can thrive.

If there was one claim that would make my heart sink, it would be if someone was asking to meet me because they had the solution to homelessness.

All of us, as individuals and as organisations, make decisions regularly that impact others positively and negatively, even with the best of intentions. As a nation, a city, a neighbourhood, a community, we are interwoven more than we realise.

Boris Johnson recently commented “there really is such a thing as society” in a message released whilst he was self-isolating. The prime minister chose to contradict his Conservative predecessor Margaret Thatcher’s support for individualism made in 1987, saying: “There is no such thing as society.”