HQN consultancy work
Strategic housing services
We provide a wide range of bespoke services to local authorities, housing and housing support providers, sub-regional and regional partnerships and agencies. If you are seeking support around non-landlord housing services it's likely we will be able to help; for more detail about all of the services we provide, please click on the highlighted text below.
We aim to support you to put individuals and communities at the heart of housing and maximise the contribution that housing makes to health and wellbeing, and to stronger, safer and prosperous communities.
Our services will enable you to:
- Develop clear, informed and intelligent direction and provide effective leadership that is responsive to change
- Communicate and enable delivery effectively through strategy, policy and plan-making
- Improve and deliver exceptional quality housing supply and housing services that achieve sustainable, positive, outcomes for your customers and communities
- Secure real value for money, based on a robust understanding of cost and resources, customer satisfaction and measurable outcomes.
For more detail about all of the services we provide under each of these headings, please see our service menu below.
There are a number of principles that underpin our work:
- We want to help you make a positive impact on the lives of your customers and communities, now and in the future
- We believe that customers and communities should be able to influence the shape of housing and housing services
- We are committed to contributing to social inclusion and equality and celebrating diversity.
What do we mean by strategic housing?
The following activities form the basis of your strategic approach and we can provide support to all:
- Understand the issues and context within which you’re working
- Understand the relationships between housing, the economy, health, etc
- Plan to address identified issues
- Manage the market
- Procure services to deliver desired outcomes
- Review and adjust services.
We also support improvements in delivery in the following housing 'service' areas:
- Enabling affordable housing supply
- Homelessness (prevention and response)
- Housing options (information, advice, access and assessment)
- Private sector (enforcement, assistance, investment in housing)
- Housing support for a wide range of households including children and young people, older people, families and households traditionally excluded by service provision
- Specialist housing.
Our most popular service with customers at the moment is:
Contact details
Gill Leng
Director
07872 198173
gill.leng@hqnetwork.co.uk
Russell Helms
Business Manager
0845 4747 004
russell@hqnetwork.co.uk
View a list of our Consultants and Associates.
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“I think the work that you're doing will help us to capitalise on our existing good practice but also inject some fresh thinking; I was very impressed with what I saw today”
Maureen Noble, Head of Crime and Disorder, Manchester City Council