The Local Housing Systems Analysis Backstory In the early 1990s, colleagues at the University of Glasgow, working with Scottish Homes, developed a housing planning model to guide sub-national housing investment for housing associations, known as local housing system...
I’m delighted to have been asked by the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) to write this blog for International Women’s Day 2024 as part of their ongoing EDI work.
As we bid farewell to 2023, Prof Ken Gibb, Director of CaCHE, reflects on a year of transition, collaboration and opportunity before looking ahead to what’s in store in the new year. CaCHE has been busy internally and externally over 2023, the first full year of our...
While it may not seem so at first glance, 107 Niddrie Road in Glasgow’s inner south side stands out as a compelling example of a deep retrofit of a pre-1919 sandstone tenement. Unfolding over the last four years, the eight flats within the block now house tenants who...
This post by Prof Ken Gibb has been crossposted from the Economics Observatory blog. To improve the efficiency of UK energy use and reduce carbon emissions, one key area for action is the country’s housing stock. The required retrofit is a massive...