This eighth paper, the final one in the Planning for the Future series, looks at regional differences in the demand for affordable housing and the profile of those who live there. Substantial differences exist among regions in terms of the demand and pressure placed on a region’s housing supply. Pressures on affordable housing are increasing due to high house prices and rents.

This report aims to assist the Housing Corporation and its successor bodies in the development of policy and strategy, with an emphasis on: 1. How future housing investment can maximise its contribution to economic development; and 2. how housing and physical regeneration interventions can be integrated with, and complementary to, economic development strategies.

This report is based on the findings from an evidence review aimed at establishing what is known about social fragmentation within English housing estates and deprived neighbourhoods.

Housing matters to economic development. It can enhance economic performance and place competitiveness, but it can also lead to segregation and spatial concentrations of poverty

A practical toolkit aimed specifically at housing providers and the residents with whom they work.

Under current legislation there is no absolute mechanism for residents’ groups to complain to the Housing Ombudsman if they are in dispute with their landlord. The toolkit aims to redress this.

A guide for associations on dealing with the victims of domestic violence.

The Clean Break project focused on how housing and drug treatment services can work together more effectively and makes recommendations for future improvements. August 2008.

This study identifies the key factors that might see residents move towards a system of self-regulation. August 2008

Report to the Housing Corporation, July 2008