Homes to Live Well

Our impact

Live Well is Greater Manchester’s commitment to ensuring great everyday support is available in every neighbourhood, by tackling health, social and economic inequalities locally — Greater Manchester Housing Providers (GMHP) play a crucial role in bringing this ambition to life. 

Through Homes to Live Well, we worked with GMHP (a network of 27 housing providers managing 260,000 homes - around one in four homes across Greater Manchester), to surface and strengthen neighbourhood-based practice that helps prevent crises and supports people earlier, closer to home.

The work highlights how housing providers combine investing in safe, affordable homes with trusted relationships, tailored support and strong local partnerships to improve wellbeing, build skills, strengthen independence, and support people to plan for more stable futures. By surfacing real life examples, our project output shows how community-led, cross-sector working reduces pressure on public services while improving outcomes for residents.

Crucially, this work is being used to align investment and delivery with core system priorities and Greater Manchester’s Live Well approach.

Our approach

This work is guided by the Live Well Learning Framework, which we co-created with GMCA, GM Integrated Care and the VCFSE sector through the National Lottery Community Fund–funded Live Well Accelerator Programme. 

The framework sets out the system conditions needed to grow community-led action, power and prevention, and underpins Greater Manchester’s wider Live Well strategy: 

Using participatory design, action learning and systems thinking, we worked alongside housing providers and partners to surface what’s working and identify where practice can grow. Collectively, we worked to imagine and articulate a future where partners work collaboratively to reduce inequalities, so all residents can live well in their place.