This Sector Study aims to give a better understanding of the range of activities that housing associations are involved in and to assess the relationship between such activities and organisational structure.

The report uses data from the Regulatory and Statistical Return 2003 to provide evidence on the wider role of HAs in terms of the non-social housing that they own and manage and the range of non-housing activities that they undertake. It identifies the relative scale and importance of these activities, examines variations between HAs of different type and size and assesses the extent to which HAs are involved in both non-social housing and other non-housing activities.