Refugees and new arrivals often experience the worst housing outcomes in the UK. Over the last two years our team (University of Huddersfield and Migration Yorkshire) has been working to better understand the housing situation faced by refugees. This has included improving the evidence base on how refugees gain access to housing post-decision and post-arrival […]
The Review of the Decent Homes Standard has been underway since early 2021 – and the Northern Housing Consortium are part of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Review Sounding Board. With a consultation on extending the Decent Homes Standard to the private rented sector having concluded last year, the NHC are expecting […]
Monday 13th March saw the All Party Parliamentary Group for Housing in the North reconvene for 2023 / 2024. The Group, which brings together Parliamentarians from all parties and both Houses together to discuss and advance northern housing policy, successfully held its AGM and opened the new year hosting a Ministerial dialogue with Lord Callanan, […]
Meet our Sustainability Leaders As the housing sector continues to face major challenges, developing and retaining a talented workforce has never been more important. The Talent for Sustainability campaign is a call to action from an innovative partnership which aims to make a difference by embedding sustainability in the sector’s talent pool in the North. […]
The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) has responded to the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum (NPF) consultation on how a potential future Labour government can create a “fairer, greener and more dynamic Britain”. Of the six policy commissions, under the consultation, we submitted a response to four: A green and digital future; Better jobs and better […]
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published analysis exploring the similarities and differences between local authorities in England – grouping together local authorities with similar characteristics to create ‘clusters’. The ONS says that the findings from their analysis “allows users to understand the similarities between local authorities, while providing local authorities with control groups […]
Councils can now estimate the size and cost of their future Temporary Accommodation (TA) need using a predictive model developed by Andy Gale, one of the country’s leading homelessness experts. It is designed to help housing managers make the case for additional budget or capital resources to help purchase lower-cost TA. This is particularly important […]
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has announced the successful bids from Wave 2.1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) for successful local authorities and providers of social housing to install energy efficiency upgrades in their housing stock. £778 million has been offered to 107 projects for Wave 2.1 of the […]
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today (15 March 2023) set out his first Spring Budget outlining the Government’s plans on taxes and key decisions on spending. Following the Chancellor’s announcements, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has published its economic and fiscal outlook. The OBR are expecting inflation to fall sharply to 2.9% by the end […]
The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC), which represents housing organisations in the North, is calling on the Chancellor to use next week’s Budget to uprate Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to provide a lifeline for struggling renters in the North. The NHC and others welcomed the decision from government last November to protect the most vulnerable in […]