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.

Getting the policy response right, however, will depend on a much better understanding of the linkages between housing and economic outcomes. The report analyses how these linkages play out in cities and city-regions and considers the policy implications.

In brief - Housing and economic development

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