By HQN Associate Emma Lindley
Housing demand
This report from the Smith Institute is an exploration into the factors influencing vacancy chains in London’s social housing – the analysis is focused on how different types of letting do and don’t release new social housing bedspaces, and how different stresses in allocations policies and lettings quotas influence the length of chains in social housing lettings and categories of housing need being met.
Housing unaffordability and mental health: Dynamics across age and tenure
This paper examines changing trends in housing affordability in the Netherlands and its link to mental health across tenures and age cohorts. It finds a clear link between living in housing that’s unaffordable and poorer mental health scores, and this association is particularly strong among renters and younger people.
Drivers of housing (un)affordability in the advanced economies: A review and new evidence
This Housing Studies journal article provides an overview of some of the major drivers of the housing affordability crisis in the advanced economies and spans a wide range of factors, including welfare state retrenchment; land, construction, and other development costs; demographic shifts; race and inequality; income and inequality; the financialization of housing; and NIMBYism.
Housing and the cost of living
This House of Commons Library briefing paper considers the impact of inflation on rent and mortgage payments and the government response.
Homelessness
Dispersing homeless people fails to stop antisocial behaviour, finds study
Dispersing rough sleepers from town centres fails to stop so-called antisocial behaviour and wrongly criminalises homeless people, a study of 10 towns by criminologists at Sheffield Hallam University has found.
The report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group inquiry into the government’s progress tackling rough sleeping.
This Progress Report examines what progress has been made on the Conservative Party manifesto commitment to end rough sleeping by 2024. The commission – chaired by the former Head of the Civil Service, Lord Bob Kerslake – is an independent group of 36 experts from the health, housing and homelessness sectors, including people with lived experience, as well as representatives from local and national government.
Evaluation of the Housing First Pilots: Third Process Report
This DLUHC report is the third report of the process evaluation of the Housing First Pilots.
PRS
This report proposes a financial model for improving private property in Greater Manchester that offers low-cost loans or financing which provides significant paybacks equal to or greater than tax incentives.
This Health & Place journal article examines the mental health impacts of poor-quality private-rented housing in the north of England during the UK’s first Covid-19 lockdown.
