How the sector can help left-behind places

Orginally published in Inside Housing, April 2023

Inside Housing and Karbon Homes brought together housing professionals to discuss how to improve the lives of people living in disadvantaged communities.

Left-behind areas have been – as the name suggests – left behind. They are rarely talked about in policy, there is a lack of concerted action to approach regeneration in a way that really increases the spending power of people who are living in poverty in disadvantaged communities.

Earlier this year, Karbon Homes published a rallying cry to change that, in a report called Fair Foundations: a new movement for left behind places. Now, Inside Housing, and Karbon Homes have brough together experts from across the social housing sector to discuss these ideas further, and the role that social landlords can play in them.

Quality of Life Foundation Director, Matthew Morgan, took part in the discussion.