Evaluation of FirstStop advice service for older people
The Government announced in 'Laying the Foundations: A Housing Strategy for England' that they will be investing a further £1.5 million in the FirstStop information and advice service. FirstStop is a free, independent service for older people, their families and carers and aims to help older people make informed decisions about their housing, care and support options and to help them maintain independent living in later life. The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Service at the University of Cambridge has been working with FirstStop since 2009 to conduct an independent evaluation of the initiative with an action research approach and are delighted that the service has secured further funding.
Evaluation of Enhanced Housing Options Trailblazers report published
This project evaluated the implementation, operation and success of the Enhanced Housing Options Trailblazers programmes. This work was by CCHPR, with involvement from Birmingham University (Centre for Urban and Regional Analysis) and Shared Intelligence. The Enhanced Housing Options Trailblazers were run by DCLG with support from the DWP. The full evaluation report can be downloaded from CCHPR’s website.
New Affordable Homes: what, where and for whom have RPs been building between 1989 and 2009?
The New affordable homes report provides detailed retrospective analysis of the new homes built by Registered Providers in England over the period 1989 to 2009. The research, funded jointly by the Tenant Services Authority and the HCA in February 2010, was carried out by a team drawn from the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge and the London School of Economics. The research used a wide range of data to investigate in detail what new homes were built by England’s Registered Providers, where these were located and who rented or bought them. In particular, the research:
- Looked in detail at the types and sizes of new homes that were constructed and how these changed over time
- Mapped where all these homes were built at the postcode level across the whole of England and linked this to new analyses of social deprivation and tenure mix
- Used anonymous data on tenants analysed who were being allocated these new homes or who bought new low cost homes, including the social, economic and demographic characteristics of the households that moved into them
Anna Clarke and Sarah Monk have published a new paper on residualisation of the social rented sector in the International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis.
Please visit the CCHPR website to either download or obtain further details of these publications:http://www.cchpr.landecon.cam.ac.uk/
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