Much has been said about the pressures of COVID-19 liberating local leadership and community action to tackle homelessness and look after vulnerable members of our communities.

The big question now is what it will take to embed these as core features of bottom-up, place-based transformation for the long-term. Local leaders can do much to build on emerging personal and organisational practices to embed listening, enabling leadership, community power and cross-sector partnerships at the heart of change.