Housing
The housing team at CRESR is one of the largest groups of specialist housing researchers in the UK. It has gained an unrivalled reputation for high-quality, policy-oriented evaluations and reports.
While it has experience in a range of subjects, it has particular expertise in the following areas:
- housing market analysis
- housing market renewal and regeneration
- the private rented sector and the Local Housing Allowance
- housing modernisation
- homelessness
- the housing circumstances of different social and ethnic groups
- housing's role in creating more mixed communities
- tenant participation
- the housing needs of gypsies and travellers
- housing policy, housing management and service delivery
- older people's housing
UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)
Director and Principal Investigator: Ken Gibb (Glasgow University)
Co-investigator and Knowledge Exchange Lead (North England / Midlands): Ed Ferrari (Sheffield Hallam University)
Project Duration: 2017-2022
The Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is an independent, multi-disciplinary and multi-sector consortium of academic and non-academic stakeholders. CaCHE is UK-wide in coverage (across all four nations and at different spatial scales within), as well as UK-level in focus. It will advance knowledge and improve the evidence base for both housing policy and practice in all parts of the U.K.
The Sheffield and Rotherham Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA)
Project Director: Professor Ed Ferrari
Project Duration: 2018-2019
This project is a collaboration between Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield City Council and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. The study will provide a detailed understanding of the housing requirements in Sheffield and Rotherham. It will assess how much market housing and affordable housing is required, as well as exploring a range of questions to support the work of planners in the area.
Evaluation of the Cooperative Working Model
Project Director: Professor Paul Hickman
Project Duration: 2015-2018
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is reconfiguring its approach to supporting vulnerable households across the city of Stoke. This study is (principally) concerned with evaluating this new approach, which is called Cooperative Working.
Scaling-up Social Lettings: Scope, Impact and barriers
Project Director: Professor Ed Ferrari
Project Duration: 2017-2018
This project will undertake research to understand the scope and scale of the use of Social Lettings Agencies in England. The aim is to understand what SLAs can do to improve the access to, affordability and quality of, and stability in the Private Rented Sector, particularly for households in housing needs or in poverty.
Understanding the mental health needs of homeless people in Nottingham
Project Director: Dr Kesia Reeve
Project Duration: 2016-2018
This study explores the mental health needs and experiences of Nottingham's homeless population, through a survey of homeless people, in-depth interviews with homeless people with mental ill health, and interviews with stakeholders. There is increasing recognition that the mental health needs of homeless people in Nottingham are not being met and that services could be developed to better meet these needs. The study will make recommendations about how to improve services in the city.
Staff undertaking research include
Aimee Ambrose Tom Archer Nadia Bashir Professor Ian Cole Professor Ed Ferrari Dr Tony Gore Dr Stephen Green Dr Lindsey McCarthy Dr Sadie Parr Ben Pattison Dr Kesia Reeve Elizabeth Sanderson Ian Wilson
Get in touch
For further information please contact Dr Stephen Green at stephen.green@shu.ac.uk or call 0114 225 4519,
or Professor Ed Ferrari at e.ferrari@shu.ac.uk or call 0114 225 4824.
Key clients
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Camden Council
Circle Housing Wherry
Consortium of Associations in the South East
Crisis
Department for Communities and Local Government
Department for Work and Pensions
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR)
Eaga Charitable Trust
Flagship Homes
Glasgow Housing Assocation
Home Office
Housing Partners
Hyde Housing Group and partners
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Lambeth Council
Leeds City Council
Leeds Partnership Charitable Homes Ltd
Local Government Association
London Borough of Lewisham Council
North East Derbyshire District Council
North Lincolnshire Council
Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group
Oldham Council
Residential Landlords Association
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Shelter
Shelter Scotland
South Cambridgeshire District Council
South Yorkshire Housing Association
St Basils
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Wakefield and District Housing
Welsh Assembly Government
West Yorkshire Housing Partnership
White Rose Collaboration Fund project
Wigan Council