This report summarises the main findings of the National Impact Assessment Programme for 2007-08

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.

Over three million tenancies were let by local authorities and housing associations in England in the decade to 2006-07. However, the annual volume of lettings slumped by 40% over this period. This sector study dissects the factors contributing to this trend, and investigates the extent to which the outcomes of lettings processes are compounding the residualisation of social housing and the ethnic segregation of neighbourhoods.

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.

This research explores what the impacts of the credit crunch and market changes have been on the supply of, the demand for, and the affordability of LCHO.

This In Brief examines the increasing role of housing associations as agents of low cost home ownership (LCHO) and examines some actions that would help to ensure that this expansion of home ownership is sustainable.

This publication offers guidance for affordable housing providers on how to achieve the Building for Life standards.

In this issue: Profile of sector stock, Tenant activity, Decent Home Standard map, Movement to target rents and NROSH

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