The housing crisis looks different in different places. In many areas of the north of England, housing-led regeneration is needed alongside delivering new homes to drive real change for, and with, local communities. If we wind the clock back ten years to the NHC’s Commission for Housing in the North, we found that there were concerns around “persistent low value, obsolete, empty or unfit stock, fuel poverty and about standards at the bottom end of the private rented market”.