Waypoint

Waypoint is a space to understand what's changing, define what matters and shape what we do next.

The world around housing is shifting fast. Rising costs, growing inequality, pressure on local services, the challenges we're working through don't sit neatly inside one sector, and neither can the solutions.

Waypoint is where we step back to think about that.

Latest Blog Posts

19/08/2026

Place isn't a new idea: So why are we talking about it so much?

If you spend enough time working around government, housing, regeneration and public services, you start to notice that certain words come in and out of fashion. Partnership. Community. Levelling up. Growth. Resilience. And in recent years, perhaps more than any other, place.

05/08/2026

Everything is changing: The developing landscape of housing needs

"Housing associations, as currently configured, are not equipped for the role that the moment demands of them. Not because their leaders are not capable, but because the sector’s business model, governance conventions, regulatory constraints and measurement habits were designed for a very different operating environment." A guest post from Jas Bains and Matt Leach

03/08/2026

Thinking in decades, not cycles: Why social housing must escape the short‑term planning trap

Social housing has always operated inside a dense web of short‑term cycles that shape priorities, behaviour and decision‑making. Mark Willis writes about how we've always operated in a dense web of...

31/07/2026

Beyond the quick fix: why BFL Waypoint is rethinking innovation for long-term social change

For too long, we have taken sector specific approaches to solving problems, but in a complex world, where many problems are at the system level, we can no longer work in isolation.