‘I could walk you down a road where the average life expectancy drops by 20 years within a mile’ : Matt Forrest on regeneration opportunities and challenges in the Tees Valley

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The post-industrial Tees Valley is a region with lots of potential regeneration opportunities but many acute challenges also. As part of Housing Today’s Voices of Regeneration series, the chair of the new Tees Valley Housing Partnership explains how it can fulfil its potential

It is with a mixture of quiet pride and frustration that Matt Forrest talks about the Tees Valley.

The chief executive of Middlesborough-based housing association Thirteen Group is passionate about housing-led regeneration and tackling deprivation.

“I guess a lot of your readers won’t know an awful lot about the Tees Valley?” he asks Housing Today before immediately painting a vivid picture of the region.

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