North East Housing Partnership launches new prospectus

The North East Housing Partnership (NEHP) has published a new prospectus setting out how social housing providers will work together to support long-term renewal across the region.

believe housing is a member of NEHP, alongside other social landlords and local authorities.

The prospectus comes at an important point for the region. The North East Combined Authority has set out a clear long-term direction through five missions on opportunity, pride in place, inclusive growth, green energy and global connections.
National housing policy is also increasingly focused on long-term investment, partnership and more joined-up, place-based delivery.
Across both agendas, housing is recognised as central to supporting healthier lives, stronger communities and a more productive regional economy.

Established three years ago, NEHP has helped strengthen collaboration across the sector.

The new prospectus, Building better lives: a fresh prospectus for a decade of renewal in the North East, builds on this work by setting out outcomes-focused commitments and closer alignment between housing investment and regional priorities.

It sets out how, as a partnership, NEHP can tackle the challenges the region faces by making progress together in four thematic areas:

  • Regeneration and development
    Delivering more new homes and unlocking regeneration across the region.
  • Quality of homes and investment
    Improving the quality, safety, energy efficiency, and long-term sustainability of existing homes.
  • Better lives
    Improving life chances for residents through poverty reduction, skills, employment and family wellbeing
  • Homelessness, specialist and supported housing
    Strengthening the system response for specialist housing needs and supported accommodation and working with local authorities to relieve homelessness.

In each case, housing provides a starting point to wider social, environmental and economic outcomes. And in each case, these outcomes can be strengthened and enhanced by close partnership with the new Mayor and combined authority.

Read the full NEHP prospectus here.