Shepherding more than four sets of fingers worth of housing associations into co-ordinated action might not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but for Claire Griffiths the task has a degree of a personal importance.

Since the end of the summer, the chief executive of housing association Cobalt has also been charged with the aforementioned task in her new position as chair of the Liverpool City Region Housing Associations (LCRHA). “It’s not a very snappy title, is it,” Griffiths notes as she joins Housing Today for a discussion of the role and the challenge of social housing provision on Merseyside.