A useful tool for housing associations when planning service delivery and identifying potential customers

Housing associations (HAs) have provided housing for around 60,000 young households a year from 1997/98 to 1999/00. In 1999/00 22% of general lettings and 45% of supported lettings were to young households.

Treading the Boards looks at the challenges facing the Boards of housing associations and examines the crucial relationship between voluntary members and paid management.rn

This study seeks to establish the current profile of BME RSLs

Geographical information systems (GIS) can be useful in helping to inform decisions on resource allocation to meet housing need. Working from census and other survey data, enhanced with detailed information of stock location, means that GIS can provide a desktop tool at a moderate cost.

This Sector Study sets out some of the findings of research conducted for the Housing Corporation by Tony Champion and Tania Ford at the University of Newcastle as part of their ESRC Cities Programme project 'Migration, residential preferences and the changing environment of cities'.

Registered social landlords (RSLs) across the country should monitor their rents in relation to the costs of owner occupation not just house prices as it is costs not prices which determine choice.

Continuing shortfalls in the race equality performance of RSLs, despite 20 years of race equality initiatives are highlighted by this research which assesses how far RSLs meet the needs of BME communities.

Contains findings of a housing association tenant survey conducted by Market & Opinion Research International (MORI) on behalf of the Housing Corporation.

This document sets out our policy on options for community housing and details our new community training and enabling programme.