In light of structural changes to the Universal Credit system, the Northern Housing Consortium has once again surveyed its membership to gain new insights into how these changes have impacted on members and their tenants.
RESOURCES
Democracy starts at home
This report by The Democratic Society suggests several actions and activities that help to better involve customers, leading to better decision-making.
Patching the safety net
The NFA and ARCH publish the findings of 2019’s survey into the impact of Universal Credit (UC) on local authorities and ALMOs
The mental health premium
In this report Citizens Advice have examined the impact of poor mental health on the costs of accessing services and goods, and have exposed the financial detriment that customers with poor mental health incur.
Building Beautiful Places
This report, published by the ThinkTank Policy Exchange puts forward a new policy approach that incentivises land owners and developers to propose and build housing schemes that are beautiful and diverse.
Social Prescribing Project Report
The Social Prescribing project is in collaboration with Community Engagement officer for Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) in Cambridgeshire, employed by CHS (Cambridge Housing Society), Jade-Anne Griffin (JAG) and Nuffield Road Medical Practice, a surgery in East Chesterton, Cambridge.
Tackling digital, financial and employment exclusion
This report published by the Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research provides evidence about the impact of one-to-one coaching on people suffering from financial and digital exclusion and exclusion from the labour market.
CLAS Annual Service Report 2018/2019
This report on The Cambridgeshire Local Assistance Scheme (CLAS) summarises the savings made by the scheme in its second year of operation, made possible by taking a Think Communities approach2, which emphasises the importance of people, places and systems.
Social Prescribing
Social prescribing: GLA’s next steps
Great Places Commission: final report
With support from the National Housing Federation, the Commission visited towns and cities across the North and Midlands, meeting housing associations, stakeholders and local residents. Using the learning from this process, the Commission has made ten recommendations.
Housing works: assessing the impact of HA employment support
Authors: Mark Wilding, Katy Jones, Philip Martin and Lisa ScullionPublished by Give us a Chance and University of SalfordThe research involved a mixed-methods approach and was carried out in three key phases:Phase 1: Initial consultation and review of...
Making a sustainable community
Authors: Deborah Quilgars, Alison Dyke, Alison Wallace and Sarah WestPublished by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, February 2019This report presents the results of a six-year evaluation of Derwenthorpe, an urban extension of about 500 homes in York, developed by the...
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