<b><b>The Housing Forum is two years old. Project director Judith Harrison writes the latest report on its activities, successes and future challenges</b></b><br><b> The Housing Forum was given some tough initial targets when it started business in April 1999: establishing techniques for performance measurement, setting up the demonstration projects process and encouraging the introduction of partnering arrangements. </b><br><b><b>The evolving agenda</b></b><br> These were achieved during the first year and towards the end of that year it had become apparent that promoting the Egan agenda to the industry was to become an evolving process of continuous learning within the Housing Forum itself, similar to the process it was encouraging within the industry. <p></p><p>New challenges such as the national customer satisfaction survey; extending the focus to the refurbishment, repair and maintenance of the current housing stock; the future design, production and take up of manufactured housing; and how to address the skills shortage were added to the Housing Forum agenda. </p><p><b><b>Industry involvement </b></b><br> The take up of membership of the Housing Forum has far exceeded initial expectations - more than 130 members, representing to one extent or another all sectors and interests within the industry.</p><p> A preliminary analysis of the 95 demonstration projects shows …