Focusing on providing the knowledge base and tools to ensure housing policy is at the heart of transformational change in the North

Focus

• Housing markets
• Demographic change
• Economic development
• Policy shaping
• Delivering new homes
• Regeneration
• Renewal
• Enviromental challenges
• Regional infrastructure
• Regional housing strategies
• Neighbourhoods
• Mixed income communities

Example Outcomes

• Development of city regional housing strategies and implementation tools
• Analysis of and support to Housing Markets renewal objectives
• Support members in working with spatial strategies
• Research into and best practice dissemination of barriers and solutions to affordable housing delivery - including land and asset based solutions
• Housing Impact Assessment toolkits
• Development of Northern Public Service Agreement on mixed communities
• Develop Northern model of best practice integration of neighbourhoods, local and multi-area agreements
• Exploration of new models of tenure diversification
• Household based commerical solutions (e.g. facilities management, gas servicing)