CHIC is delighted to become a strategic partner of the Healthy Homes Hub, the membership body seeking to improve the health of living environments across social housing in the UK.
The partnership will see the two organisations work together to help inform the hub’s membership of housing providers, health professionals and academics on how we can improve the health of our social homes through the use of strategic procurement and asset management services.
As well as being a membership body, the Hub acts as a knowledge platform for housing providers to understand how to deliver healthier homes as well as being a voice and platform to articulate the value of good health in the home for residents and landlords alike. Presently over 67% of the UK’s affordable housing market are members of the hub.
Welcoming CHIC as strategic partners, Jenny Danson, Chief Executive of the Healthy Homes Hub said:
“Partnerships like this one with CHIC are vital to allow us to continue to educate, inform and create thoughtful dialogue about health in the home. This challenge is one of volume, so we require a strong community that takes a long-term and inclusive view of how our homes are lived in. CHIC shares this vision with us and we look forward to working with them on a number of exciting initiatives especially the creation of a new specialist knowledge hub for our members which will showcase the role strategic procurement can play in improving the health of our social housing stock in the UK.”
Luke Hurd, Chief Operating Officer at CHIC adds:
“The provision of safe, sustainable and healthy homes is something we should all aspire to. Home is a common theme for all, and it should be an environment that does not make people ill. That responsibility is on all of us, because the upside and benefits of healthy homes for wider communities and society is a win for everyone. We are looking forward to adding our assets and procurement knowledge to the already good work of the Hub to raise the profile of the clear connection between the quality of our homes and the quality of our health, by highlighting the enabling role that clever strategic procurement can play.”
