Two of the UK's largest pools of local government pension capital have moved decisively into housing and infrastructure this week, with a group of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds launching a dedicated housing investment manager and GLIL Infrastructure completing a fresh round of asset acquisitions. Together the moves confirm what many in the institutional investment community have suspected for eighteen months: that patient, long-duration pension capital is now treating UK residential and infrastructure assets as core allocations rather than opportunistic side bets.