Alan Kilburn obituary

Alan Kilburn was president of the Chartered Institute of Housing in 1982-83 Photograph: none

My father, Alan Kilburn, who has died aged 89, was an influential figure in the social housing sector. Under his leadership in the 1980s the housing association North Housing undertook a series of major regenerative projects, including the renovation of several Georgian and Victorian terraces in Newcastle upon Tyne. Throughout, Alan always insisted to tenants that they lived in “our house, but your home”.

He also served as president of the Chartered Institute of Housing in 1982-83, and was a participant in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Inquiry into British Housing (1985), later introducing Prince Philip to tenants at Deckham in Gateshead.