2019

This page holds reports received in 2019. Our Ed Panel will assess each new report. Those that they consider have the greatest chance of influencing policy makers are shown in the 'selected' section at the top of the page. The Ed Panel aims to have about a dozen reports listed in this section by the end of the year and those reports that have made way for more highly ranked ones are listed in a 'highly commended' section. Reports in the main section that have been assessed by the Ed Panel are marked with a tick below the summary. Useful factual data from some reports is included in the 'Bite size facts' drop down menu. To read Ed Panel commentary on reports see the Blogs drop down menu. At the bottom of this page annual statistical and Government publications are shown. The home page also holds a selection of the most recently published reports and you can use the category drop down menu or search function to find specific areas of interest.

2019 reports - the Ed Panel 'must read' selection

The Ed Panel has yet to meet in 2019. This section will include selected reports.

2019 - main section

Recently received reports that the Ed Panel are assessing or reports that have already been assessed (marked with a tick).

Learning from International examples of affordable housing

The Urbed Trust, Shelter, Nicholas Falk, Jonah Rudlin

The URBED Trust were commissioned to provide a set of case studies on affordable housing internationally, which we have presented in the form of a short report, drawing on previous visits by Nicholas Falk to some inspiring cities, and existing publications on social and affordable housing. While this is not a fully comprehensive review, we have benefitted from comments from local experts, and introductions from Dr Nicky Morrison at the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research. We hope it will encourage more visits to learn from what other cities have done to tackle similar issues to the ones we face in England.

Increasing Investment in Social Housing

Capital Economics for Shelter's Commission on the future of social housing, Justin Chaloner, Grant Coquhorn, Mark Pragnell, January 2019

Capital Economics has been commissioned by Shelter to provide robust economic analysis on public sector expenditure on housing in England in order to inform the debate on funding more social rent housing.

Baby Boomers deaths to reach peak in 2044

The Times article, Kaya Burgess, January 2019

A short but interesting piece based on an analysis of ONS data.

Building for our future: a vision for social housing

Shelter's commission on the future of social housing, January 2019

This report recommends a historic renewal of social housing, with a 20-year programme to deliver 3.1 million more social homes. This will allow the benefits of social housing to be offered much more widely – providing both security for those in need and a step up for young families trying to get on and save for their future.

Why Aren’t Housing Associations Building More Social Rented Homes?

Network Homes, January 2019

This report examines the development finance model for housing associations and seeks to explain why housing associations cannot just turn on the social rent taps in the current policy and economic environment without putting themselves at very considerable financial risk.

Common Repair Provisions for multi-owned property: a cause for concern

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Built Environment Forum, Scotland, Douglas Robertson, January 2019

The question this report attempts to address is what are the current arrangements for ensuring that
common repairs are undertaken within flatted property in Scotland, and are they working?

Better Homes for Older Adults: Improving Construction, Health, Care, Design, Technology & Finance

Agile Ageing Alliance, Tata Steel, January 2019

The convergence of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), potentially game-changing assistive technologies and big data analytics constitutes a golden opportunity to rethink the outlook for ageing populations, especially in terms of housing.

What's Not Working? Barriers to employment and the impact of rent and housing benefit.

L&Q, Peabody, Matthew Grenier, Anya Martin, Lucy Worrall, January 2019

This report set out to answer three questions: Do higher rents disincentivise residents from finding work or working more hours? Is this disincentive exacerbated by housing benefit? What other factors contribute to residents’ decisions to find work or increase their hours.

Helping Communities Build, a review of the Community Land Trust Funds and lessons for future support

Sheffield Hallam University, Charities Air Foundation, Tom Archer, Stephen Green, Charlie Fisher, January 2019

This report, whilst acknowledging successful community-led schemes, also strives to identify how support for CLTs can be implemented more effectively in the future.

Size doesn’t matter. Giving a green light to micro-homes

Adam Smith Institute, Vera Kichanova, January 2019

Can micro houses (less than 37 sq m of floor space) offer an affordable alternative for young people?

Sign on the dotted line. A new rental contract

IPPR, Darren Baxter, Luke Murphy, January 2019

This report sets out a programme of radical reform to the private rented sector . In doing so, it draws on in-depth conversations with tenants and landlords across England.

Democracy Starts at Home

Wheatley Group, CIH, The Democratic Society, January 2019

The research is aimed at gathering the very best examples of customer engagement from across the world to help point the way forward.

Engaging and empowering tenants in council-owned housing

TPAS, LGA, January 2019

Engaging and involving tenants is a core activity for council landlords and the LGA want to understand and highlight good practice, the challenges faced and any additional support required. Engagement, like housing, is under increased scrutiny across the sector presently, which is welcome and long overdue.

Planning for new homes

NAO, February 2019

This report is part of a series on housing in England, including Housing in England: overview (2017) and Homelessness (2018). It assesses how effectively MHCLG supports the planning regime/Planning Inspectorate to provide the right homes in the right places.

Home for Good: the role of floating support in ending rough sleeping

St Mungo's, February 2019

As part of St Mungo's Home for Good campaign, they issued Freedom of Information requests to 135 local areas to learn more about how funding for their floating support services has changed over the past five years.

Poverty and housing in the private rented sector

NHF, February 2019

In this short briefing the NHF outline the key findings from their analysis that shows the positive impact that social rent could make to households in relative poverty after housing costs who are paying a market rent in the private rented sector.

Rise and Fall: The shift in household growth rates since the 1990s

Civitas, Daniel Bentley and Alex McCallum, February 2019

This report looks at household formation over the last decade and assesses some of the important implications of the decline in household size ceasing.

Making a sustainable community: life in Derwenthorpe, York, 2012–2018

JRF, Deborah Quilgars, Alison Dyke, Alison Wallace and Sarah West, February 2019

This research finds that mainstream housing developers can successfully deliver sustainable homes and communities at scale that produce high-quality living environments. However, different levels of buy-in from residents mean that environmental and social measures need to be built into the model as far as possible from the outset.

Homelessness in 2030

Y-Säätiö and Feantsa, February 2019

FEANTSA member, the Y-Foundation, has published a collection of essays from leading researchers from around the world on the future of homelessness. The essays offer futures in which homelessness has been eradicated, utopias and dystopias, visions from countries such as Australia and Germany and detailed imaginings of paradigms and policy in the sector.

Annual reviews - white & green papers, statistics, commercial innovation

Deaths of homeless people in England and Wales: 2013 to 2017

ONS, December 2018

Statisticians across the UK have been working together to help make housing and planning statistics more coherent and comparable. The work is now starting to yield results – including collaboration between statisticians in the devolved administrations and publication of experimental stats on homeless deaths in England and Wales.