HOUSING REPORTS
Reports are in chronological sequence

LONDON (UK)

2004 Mayor of London Greater London Housing Requirements Study December 2004
Detailed Study, specific to London, setting out housing need based on a reference point of June 2002. Latest available as at November 2008 but later update expected to be published at any time.

2004 Mayor of London Greater London Housing Requirements Study December 2004
Executive summary of the above study.

2006 Greater London Authority: Community Engagement Task Force Consulting and engaging tenants, residents and hard to reach groups in the Regional Agenda: Report of the Community Engagement Task Force to the Mayor's Housing Forum
Also known as the 'Cope Report'

2006 December Greater London Authority Who buys new market housing in London?
Only 33% end up 'owner occupied' (of which most of them are surely leasehold tenancies?)

2007 January Greater London Authority: Data Management and Analysis Group DCLG 2003-based Projections of Households for Greater London
These statistics, produced by DCLG, were used by the GLA when producing its population and household projections in relation to the Review of the London Plan.

2007 September 18th Greater London Authority and National statistics Focus on London 2007
Compliation of statistics from Census and other survey data from National Statistics

2007 September 18th London Mayor's Office Draft Mayor's Housing Strategy
Sets out the Mayor's policies to address the range of London’s housing challenges and his Strategic Housing Investment Plan, which outlines his approach to investment to support the delivery of new homes. Key aims include providing more affordable homes and more family homes, tackling climate change, helping people on low to middle incomes into home ownership and increasing housing choice and mobility.

2007 September London Mayor's Office Housing in London: The evidence base for the Mayor's Housing Strategy

. 2008 May GLA Economics Credit Crunch and the property market (PDF) (RTF)


NATIONAL (UK)

. 1975 Final Report of the Working Party on Housing Co-operatives Department of the Environment 1975

1998 June 22nd. House of Commons Research Paper 98/69 Rent levels, affordability and housing benefit

2000 November 16th. House of Commons Research Paper 00/87 Rent Rebates and Local Authority Housing Revenue Accounts
Concise explanation as to why Housing Revenue Accounts were ring-fenced and therefore how the daylight robbery system worked.

2001 September C&LG Better Places to live by Design: A Companion Guide to PPG3

2001 December 14th. House of Commons Library Research Paper 01/115 The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill: HL Bill 51 of 2001-02

. 2003 Empowering Communities: The Community Gateway Model HACAS Chapman Hendy and Trowersd & Hamlins 2003. Purchase from the Chartered Institute of Housing
From an original proposal by Nic Bliss and Charlie Baker of the Confederation of Co-operative Housing

2003 HM Treasury Housing Consumption and EMU
This puts forward that it is borrowing against rising house prices that can used to drive consumption in the economy generally.

2003 June Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Estimation of the need to spend on maintenance and management in the Local Authority housing stock
Researched by the Building Research Establishment, Construction Division.

2003 September 11th. CDS Co-operatives Common Ground - for Mutual Home Ownership Community land trusts and shared-equity co-operatives to secure permanently affordable homes for key workers
by the New Economics Foundation and CDS Co-operatives Pat Conaty, Johnston Birchall, Steve Bendle and Rosemary Foggitt

2003 November Office of the Deputy Prime Minister General power for best value authorities to charge for discretionary services - guidance on the power in the Local Government Act 2003
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2004 HM Treasury Barker Report of Housing Supply :Final Report
Cited as the single document that summarises the prevalent current problem in housing - a lack of supply.

2005 January ODPM Planning for Mixed Communities: Consultation paper

2005 March Attitudes to home-ownership and moving in 2004 by Jackie Smith
published in "Housing Finance" Journal of the Council of Mortgage Lenders issue 04 2005

2005 March Centre for Sustainable Energy Fuel Poverty and Non-traditional Constructions: Final Report

2005 Joseph Rowntree Trust Mixed Communities in England
A US perspective on evidence and policy prospects by Alan Berube

2005 December Summary of public consultation responses to the Consultation Paper: 'Planning for Mixed Communities',


2005 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Competition Law and Policy in the European Union

2006 January Framework Agreements OGC Guidance on Framework Agreements in the new procurement Regulations

2006 March Joseph Rowntree Trust. Foundations:Analysis informing change Mixed Communities: Success and sustainability

2006 March 6th. House of Commons
ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee:
Affordability and the Supply of Housing: Draft Volume of Written Evidence Volume 1
(Memorandum AH 01 to AH30)

2006 March 6th. House of Commons
ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee:
Affordability and the Supply of Housing: session 2005-06 Volume II: Oral and Written Evidence

2006 March 23 Anna Minton Space Invaders: The Privatisation of Public Space Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
The privatisation of public space examines how the private sector is gaining control of large city centre sites previously under local authority control to create the biggest change to the British urban landscape since the 1950s.

2006 July 10 Department of Communities and Local Government Local Government Service Diversity: practice, expectations and public attitudes
Full report from a study into the Use by Best Value Authorites of their power to charge for Discretionary Services resulting from the Local Government Act 2003

2006 July Housing Corporation: Affordable Home Strong Communities Public Attitudes to Housing 2006 July
Used to justify home ownership at any cost on grounds of aspiration

2006 August 18 House of Commons Research paper 06/41. Affordable Housing in England

2006 September 29 ODPM Select Committee Inquiry - Housing Supply and Affordability

2006 November C&LG Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3)
Supersedes PPG3

2006 November Developing the local government services market to support the long term strategy for local government A Pricewasterhouse Cooper report for C&LG Nov 2006

2006 November Corruption in the UK Construction Industry Search on Corruption and download.
Chartered Insitute of Building Nov 2006

2006 National Housing Federation (NHF) What Tenants Want
This study deals with RSL tenants. Do RSL tenants agree with its findings? Is it being read as relevant to all tenants including private tenants and council tenants? Is it guilty of the gross error of treating tenants as nothing more than consumers? Does it take it for granted that landlords can indulge in mission creep?

. 2007 January New Local Government Network Where should Housing Policy go next?
Liz Richardson, IPEG University of Manchester
The New Local Government Network (NLGN) is reputed to be the think tank behind changes to Local Government such as the introduction of mayors and cabinet style. All aimed at streamlining contracting out of services. Not surprisingly the NLGN is funded by the corporations that benefit from this.

. 2007 February Communities & Local Government Ends and Means: The Future Roles of Social housing in England
Professor John Hills

. 2007 February Various authors The case for council housing in 21st Century Britain. Published by Defend Council Housing 2006
Definitive of their case for maintaining democratically controlled council housing funded in the traditional way.

2007 February 15 Communities & Local Government Right to Manage Guidance for Tenant Management Organisations
Available as an 8 volume set for £40 or as free downloads.

2007 March Improving attitudes to home ownership by Bob Pannell
published in "Housing Finance" Journal of the Council of Mortgage Lenders issue 01 2007

2007 March 12 House of Commons Select Committee on Public Accounts Nineteenth Report - subject - Affordable Housing

2007 March 21 Communities & Local Government Place Shaping - a shared ambition for the future of local government
Report from the inquiry into local government headed by Sir Michael Lyons

2007 March 22 Communities & Local Government Developing good practice in tenant participation

2007 March Mintel Buy-to-let Property Market (The)

2007 May Communities & Local Government CLG Community opportunity, prosperity Annual Report 2007

2007 June 19th Communities & Local Government Every Tenant Matters Report of the independent review of social housing regulation led by Professor Martin Cave, Director of Management under Regulation at Warwick University.

2007 September 17th International Longevity Centre - UK Asset Accumulation across the Life Course
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey among other aspects this study shows how heads of households income and assets typically cease to grow once the age of 50 is passed.

2007 September 17th International Longevity Centre - UK Asset Accumulation in Focus: The Challenge Ahead
A discussion paper accompanying the publication of 'Asset Accumulation across the Life Course' This report discusses the findings of the research in the context of key UK policy debates.

. 2007 October 19th. Communities & Local Government An Action plan for community empowerment: Building on Success


. 2007 December 12th. Communities & Local Government Tenant empowerment: Analysis of Consultation Responses


2008 May 13th. Department of Work & Pensions
DWP Press release: Social Housing and Worklessness: Key Policy Messages Report
...the relatively high levels of worklessness among tenants in social housing...consistent evidence of cultures of worklessness in deprived areas. ...

2008 May 15th. Communities & Local Government CLG Community opportunity, prosperity Annual Report 2008

. 2008 July 9 Communities & Local Government Communities in control: real people, real power
Other related documents are available here

. 2008 July 28 National Housing Federation Home Truths 2008: Why the need for social housing is increasing
The average house price in England will rise by 25 per cent over the next five years to reach £274,700, despite fears of a housing market crash – this report published researched by independent economists Oxford Economics – forecasts that house prices will fall in 2009, start to recover in 2010, and then rapidly increase from 2011.

. 2008 August 13 Policy Exchange Cities Unlimited: Making urban regeneration work
"A decade of regeneration policies has failed to stop the inequality of opportunity between towns and cities in the North and those in the South East increasing. In their third report in the series on regeneration in the UK, Cities Unlimited, Tim Leunig and James Swaffield recommend a series of radical proposals that would reverse the trend and inject a much needed momentum back into regeneration policy."

2008 August 21 Department of Work & Pensions
Press Release: Social housing and worklessness: Qualitative research findings

2008 August 21 Department of Work & Pensions
Social housing and worklessness: Key policy messages

2008 August 21 Department of Work & Pensions
Social housing and worklessness: Qualitative research findings

2008 September Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
Homebuilding in the UK: A market study OFT1020

2008 September 25th. National Housing Federation (NHF)
iN business for neighbourhoods: the evidence The scale and scope of housing associations activity beyond housing
The Foreward by David Orr, Chief Executive of the NHF, boldly states that, "Housing associations provide more than two million homes for more than five million people across England. What is less well known is that they deliver a huge range of other services which support and add value to the neighbourhoods where they work. This work is for the whole community, not just their own residents."
The report goes on to outline how RSL tenants are paying for £272 million worth of services for the whole community out of their rents which given that there are in fact some 1.8 million RSL tenancies works out at about £150 per household per year. There is no ring-fencing of housing expenditure for RSLs and consequently they can get away with this.

2008 October 7th Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
Rethinking Housing: Chartered Institute of Housing's Response to Communities and Local Government's Housing Reform Programme
Author Richard Capie, CIH Director of Policy and Practice
Acknowledging the complexity of housing provision and the shortage of council housing the CIH remains in denial of the seriousness of the current situation.
The CIH proposes the antithesis of sustainable communities with all housing reduced to transit camps through the promotion of property ladders and credit crunch snakes with CIH members available to engage in social engineering and advise tenants at every move.
The report looks at private and social rented housing, and at shared ownership but without examining any of the problems that would be identified by tenants. The report finds space for a diversion into worklessness without dealing with issues of the availability of work. Throughout there is an unqualified assumption that home ownership is the form of tenure that all aspire to without analysis of what ownership means.
Above all there is no mention that 'ownership'of the housing being currently built in cities and towns is typically only leasehold, no mention that shared ownership is only at best part ownership of a lease. Run a word search and you will fail to find mention of 'prudence'.

2008 October 23rd Centre for Housing Policy the Univerity of York
The Private Rented Sector: its contribution and potential
Authors: Julie Rugg and David Rhodes

2008 October 28th New Local Government Network (NLGN)
Tenant Empowerment: What the new regulatory regime must deliver
Author Ian Keys

ON-LIne HOUSING NEWS

Housing Excellence
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Northern Housing, Midlands Housing and Southern Housing are three monthly regional magazines for housing professionals, in both the public and private sectors. Each month the magazines bring our 54,000 readers the latest national and regional news, keeping them up to speed with new developments in the industry.

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PERIODICALS

. Estates Gazette
the property industry and surveyor's journal. Essential reading if you want to monitor the property industry. Subscription £172 pa see the website

. Inside Housing
the 'industry' journal. Essential reading if you want to monitor progress. Full searching facilities are available via their website

. London Housing
Journal of the Housing department of London Councils It is doubtful that any more subscriptions @ £24 will be taken because one of the repercussions of the change of power across London, the Housing Department within London Housing is to be disbanded as a separate department and the content of this magazine will move into London Council's main magazine. for the time being it is available online at their website

. News on the Block
"All about flats" by onlune subscription with discount for 6 copies @ £30 pa. for hard copy by post from News on the Block

. Property People Portal
by subscription @ £20 pa hard copy UK, £10 pa electronic, £30 hard copy outside UK available online from Property People Website

. Residential Property Investor
"Essential reading for today's landlords" by membership subscription from £75.00 pa. Not available online from The Residential Landlord's Association (RLA)

. Roof Journal of Shelter
By subscription £40 pa for individuals, £69 pa for organisations at Roof Magazine

Social Housing
"The Journal of new Initiatives in Housing Finance" The last edition was dated 2006 December

. The Land
An occasional magazine about land rights, incorporating The Land Is Ours newsletter and Chapter & News.
by subscription @ £10 minimum including p & p or you can download in pdf or word format from the website of "The Land is Ours"

updated 2008 December 27th.