Eve Blezard

Eve Blezard is Policy Lead at the Chartered Institute of Housing, where she leads work on repairs and maintenance, building and fire safety, housing quality, and decency. Her policy approach is grounded in cultural change and the belief that the lived experience is crucial to developing practice and systems. Eve has over 15 years’ experience working across housing practice, policy, and research.

Eve’s work focuses on the connections between place, belonging, and the value of home. Her professional doctorate explored identity and community on a social housing estate, and she is now studying for an MA in World Heritage Studies, deepening her interest in placemaking, heritage, and the social value of housing.

Eve focus is working to bring together research, policy and practice, using insights from lived experience to contribute towards creating safer homes and to support more inclusive and equitable housing systems.