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.
Tees Valley Local Housing Markets
Project Director: Professor Ed Ferrari
Project Duration: 2018
Northern Housing Consortium (NHC), on behalf of the Local Authorities, main Housing Providers and the Combined Authority in the Tees Valley have commissioned CRESR through the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) to provide a preliminary evidenced think-piece to enhance understanding of the challenges and opportunities of the housing markets in the Tees Valley area.
The Future of the CLT Fund
Project Director: Dr Tom Archer
Project Duration: May 2018 - October 2018
Since 2008 CAF Venturesome has managed two social investment funds aimed at supporting affordable housing development by Community Land Trusts (CLTs). The CLT Fund I & II has supported over 44 CLTs to build over 100 new affordable homes (with another 400+ in development). The funding landscape for CLTs is changing rapidly, in part due to the emergence of a large government grant programme. As the current CLT Fund is due to close in 2019, this research is helping CAF and other funders consider future finance for the sector. It is providing deeper insights into the benefits and challenges of development by CLTs, and how future financial support might be structured.
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.
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
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF Venturesome)
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 Housing Consortium
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