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The Northern Housing Monitor 2024/25

The Northern Housing Monitor is an analysis of northern housing data creating a ‘State of the Region’ report highlighting emerging trends and identifying the developments which have the most significant impacts on people, homes and neighbourhoods in the North.

It covers housing and poverty, housing supply, housing quality and regeneration, and net zero and fuel poverty. The Monitor was produced by Arc4 and supported by believe housing, Bernicia and Yorkshire Housing.

This year’s Monitor revealed an urgent need for more social housing in the North and that with the right support the social housing sector in the North is ready to deliver this.

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Tracy Harrison, Chief Executive, Northern Housing Consortium said:

“Housing associations and councils are ready to deliver the homes their communities need and to contribute to Government housebuilding targets and economic growth, but to do this they need the right resources. The Government recently announced a £2 billion top up of the Affordable Homes Programme, something we’d been campaigning for to enable our members to continue building. However, to make a real change, longer term funding is needed to build more homes and improve existing homes and places. Lower land values make building in the North more affordable. We are leading the way with devolution, which means in many areas there is already the infrastructure and collaboration in place to better target funding.

“It is vital that action is taken urgently to make sure that everyone in the North has access to a good quality, safe home. I’m optimistic that with the right support from Government, the social housing sector in the North can make a real difference.”

Becky and Jade share how they were affected by issues raised in the report. Becky was unable to find a suitable home which she could afford in the private rented sector. Jade and her family’s mental and physical health suffered when they lived in a private rented home with numerous problems which her landlord failed to fix.

The Northern Housing Databank

The Databank is an interactive geographic look-up tool. This tool provides local authority-based look up reports as well as regional information. This will enable NHC members to search on individual local authorities and instantly obtain a standard report.

For NHC members logging onto our member-only ‘MyNHC’ portal, this will provide a further level of local analysis.

For more information and to access your local data click here.

Previous edition of the Northern Housing Monitor