Health Risk Has No Owner in Most Housing Associations
16th September 2026
Jenny Danson
Evidence from two new strategic roles suggests that without dedicated accountability for resident health outcomes, risk accumulates silently across organisational silos.
At a glance
Both Riverside and Bromford Flagship Live West have created dedicated healthy homes posts placed within strategic asset management but explicitly designed to bridge reactive delivery and long-term investment planning, a combination that neither function currently achieves on its own.
Both roles are designed to give someone protected space to analyse how investment decisions affect resident health, a function that cannot happen inside a service structured entirely around operational targets and closure rates.
Both practitioners argue that health and dignity in the home should never be treated as optional, and that the sector needs both the courage to invest, replace or rebuild rather than patch indefinitely, and a national framework that puts health, not just warmth and EPC, at the centre of housing investment.
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