In November 2007 the Corporation ran an online survey to gather local authority views of housing association performance.

The survey was designed to gather information in a more systematic way than has been done previously, in order to provide a body of feedback from an important group of stakeholders that could be used to drive improvement in the housing association sector.

The 354 local authorities in England with a strategic housing role were invited to give their views on the performance on the five largest associations active in their area. They were also given the option to provide further feedback on any other association working in their locality.