The Innovation and Good Practice Programme is a revenue grant programme administered by the Housing Corporation’s Centre for Research and Market Intelligence (CRMI), based in Cambridge.

Its purpose is to encourage the development and testing of new ideas and proposals, and to generate and promote good practice in the delivery of housing services within the housing association sector. We have a particular focus on identifying innovative solutions that are capable of being replicated across the sector.

Our themes for the IGP bidding round 2008-10 are:

• tackling worklessness;
• promoting community cohesion;
• tackling climate change in existing stock;
• efficiency in housing management; and
• transforming estates.