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A healthy home for all

The GM Tripartite Agreement is a unique collaboration between GMCA, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care and Greater Manchester Housing Provider (GMHP) partnership to deliver integrated solutions to challenges centred around housing and health.
As part of our Greater Manchester Strategy, we have committed to creating a healthy, safe, warm space for everyone to call home. The Agreement emphasises the importance of good quality homes in the right places as the building blocks of health creation and wellbeing that underpin people’s ability to build a better quality of life.
First launched in March 2021, the Agreement is now in its second iteration, reflecting the strong and continued commitment across the three organisations to take joint action on building healthy homes and communities, contributing to the creation of a thriving city region where everyone can live a good life.

Collaborating to deliver better outcomes

The three partners are committed to working together to improve the quality and suitability of living environments and ensure we have enough of the right, affordable homes in the right places to keep our residents healthy and prevent, delay or reduce demand on wider public services.
The new Tripartite Agreement brings together joint action that seeks to create the conditions for good health. It describes how, practically, we will align our expertise, resources, influence and capacity to deliver against the ambitions set out in the Greater Manchester Strategy.
Read the full Tripartite Agreement

Tackling the housing and homelessness crisis, being able to live in a secure and stable home and have access to support for health or care needs, are all fundamental to being able to live a healthy life. This new agreement will build on the unique involvement we have in Greater Manchester between our health and social care services, our housing providers and local government. We have proved we can deliver and now we will go further and faster in improving health, housing and quality of life.

Mayor Paul Dennett

GMCA lead for housing, homelessness and infrastucture

Our strategic commitments

At the core of the Tripartite Agreement are seven strategic commitments that will guide the delivery of joint projects and initiatives ‘on the ground’.

1. Supporting health creation for future generations

We will embrace health creating strategies and practices, championing public service reform and creating inclusive and sustainable transformation. Our focus will be to truly embed the role of housing in joined-up action on improving health.

2. Creating safe places for people to start well, live well and age well

Good housing is the bedrock of health creation, and we will build more of the ‘right’ type of homes, creating a quality environment for those homes and ensuring that services are provided to support people to live in them for longer.

3. Focusing on those who need the most support

We will make the most of this unique opportunity to truly embed the role of housing in joined-up action on improving health, driving forward plans to improve outcomes for vulnerable households who are often at greater risk from poor housing conditions and health inequalities.

4. Supporting people who are homeless and rough sleepers

We will continue our strong track record of innovation and collective working to prevent and tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, delivering access to appropriate care, supporting independence, reducing the need for crisis services and building on people’s potential.

5. Improving access and choice to quality homes and neighbourhoods

We want to create opportunities for local people to live in better-quality environments. This means creating better neighbourhood environments and creating more clarity around access to better homes across a variety of tenures.

6. Maximising our positive impact on the environment and the economy

We will maximise the positive impact of our partnership, contributing to zero carbon and the Green City Region agendas, and embedding social value into our procurement, ensuring new training, employment and apprenticeship opportunities are delivered through spending the Greater Manchester pound.

7. Using our influence for change

Using our expertise, experience and evidence, we will influence and lobby for change on local, regional and national platforms, pushing the boundaries and bringing innovation, initially focused on lobbying to create a positive lasting legacy from the Covid-19 recovery.

 

Watch the video below to hear Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, talk about the importance of the Tripartite Agreement and joined up thinking on housing and health.