Pets play an important role in many people's lives and often make a house a home. However, keeping pets in rented accommodation can be problematic. This issue is gaining more attention in policy, practice, and academia, and in this webinar, we explore it further. We are delighted to be joined by Tom Simcock (Research Fellow […]
More than £30bn of public money is spent on housing every year. But in 2024 this is mostly on housing benefits, personal subsidies and on measures that stoke housing demand without boosting supply. Rebalancing spending from demand-side subsidies to public capital investment to increase social housing supply is not straightforward, but it is necessary to […]
Join the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence in association with Citizens Advice Scotland and Argyll and Bute Council for a webinar exploring the state of rural housing in Scotland, focusing on Argyll and Bute's private rental sector. This session is based on a recent study by Dr Andrew Watson entitled "The challenges faced by […]
Join the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) on November 28 as we explore how social housing providers can play a pivotal role in driving national renewal by supporting employment, enterprise, and local community growth. As the UK looks towards economic recovery under a new Labour government, the role of housing providers is evolving […]
Join the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence as we support Shelter in this online event diving deeper into their ground-breaking longitudinal research project looking at the impact of moving into a social rent home. Shelter is working with HACT (Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust) to carry out a ground-breaking longitudinal research project looking at the […]
Join the conversation as we launch our report setting out the cross-cutting housing priorities for the next Scottish government in 2026 In this online session, Professor Kenneth Gibb and Dr Gareth James (University of Glasgow) from the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) launch their new report - The 2026 Scottish Election: Housing Evidence Priorities […]
Over the next decade the UK Government has committed to updating and strengthening the Decent Homes Standard, as well as extending it to the Private Rented Sector (PRS). But there is a lack of publicly available data on the location of homes that fail the Decent Homes Standard. This webinar will introduce the Non-Decent Index (NDI). The […]
Since conception the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) has acted as a platform to facilitate evidence-based housing research and in this final year of our ESRC funding, we look to celebrate this through providing a forum for academics, policymakers and practitioners to come together to discuss how housing can move forward during turbulent […]
Explore how we talk about social homes and how we define and measure social value Online event supported by the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) Social homes create value far beyond bricks and mortar. They provide security, affordability, wellbeing, community connection and long-term public benefit. This 90-minute webinar brings together voices from the National Housing […]