Nick Atkin: ‘I’ve spent my whole career in housing and I have never known the levels of collaboration that we’ve got at the moment’

Nick Atkin, chief executive of Yorkshire Housing, is shaping three emerging social housing partnerships that are crucial to the government’s plans to build more homes. So, his warning that the sector will be severely hamstrung without urgent action should be taken very seriously. He tells Martin Hilditch how the government could shift the dial