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Housing affordability in the South West of England (2023)
Report
Sinnett, D., Fouad, Z., McClymont, K., Hickman, H., Loveday, C., Hall, S., …Lamond, J. (2023). Housing affordability in the South West of England. https://homesforthesouthwest.co.uk: Homes for the South West

The South West faces acute problems of housing affordability. The region is conspicuously less affordable than England as a whole, and the North and Midlands in particular. These inter-regional disparities are becoming progressively more pronounced.... Read More about Housing affordability in the South West of England.

Digital poverty and housing inequality (2022)
Report
Karampour, K., Holmes, H., & Burgess, G. (2022). Digital poverty and housing inequality. British Academy

The link between digital poverty and broader socio-economic inequalities is clear, and it is widely acknowledged within academic and grey literature that people experiencing poverty are more likely to be digitally excluded than people with higher inc... Read More about Digital poverty and housing inequality.

Partnerships of prevention: Beyond regulation (2022)
Book Chapter
Turner, E. (2022). Partnerships of prevention: Beyond regulation. In J. Stewart, & R. Moffatt (Eds.), Regulating the Privately Rented Housing Sector: Evidence into Practice. London: Routledge

The public health agenda provided new impetus and opportunities to tackle health inequalities and a framework for revisiting policy and practice in the PRS to deliver better health outcomes. However, the national picture is erratic, and the extent to... Read More about Partnerships of prevention: Beyond regulation.

GK Housing First - UWE Evaluation Report FINAL Retraction 29-10-2021 (2021)
Report
Isaac, B., Griffin, E., Warren, S., & Ritchie, J. (2021). GK Housing First - UWE Evaluation Report FINAL Retraction 29-10-2021. Bristol: Golden Key

Housing First is an evidence-based approach which supports people with multiple complex needs and entrenched homelessness to live in their own homes. Funded by Bristol City Council in 2018, Golden Key initiated a Housing First pilot to establish... Read More about GK Housing First - UWE Evaluation Report FINAL Retraction 29-10-2021.

Golden Key local evaluation: Review of phase 4 system change case studies (2021)
Report
Bolden, R., Isaac, B., Pawson, C., Griffin, E., & Gasper, R. (2021). Golden Key local evaluation: Review of phase 4 system change case studies. Golden Key Bristol

This report summarises findings, insights and recommendations from Phase 4 of the local evaluation of Golden Key, a partnership of statutory and not-for-profit agencies across Bristol who are piloting new approaches to service delivery and mobilising... Read More about Golden Key local evaluation: Review of phase 4 system change case studies.

They know they can get away with it’: Housing development, divergent goals and the limits to trust (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Hickman, H., & McClymont, K. (2021, April). They know they can get away with it’: Housing development, divergent goals and the limits to trust. Presented at Housing Studies Association Conference 2021, Online

Presentation to stimulate a panel discussion at the Housing Studies Association Conference 2021 on issues of trust between local authorities and housing developers.

Renters rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Mathers, A. (2021). Renters rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK. Araucaria, 23(46), 147-171. https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2021.i46.08

The material effects of austerity in the United Kingdom (UK) have generated a resurgence of activist initiatives in the field of housing central to which is ACORN that has developed into a federated organisation contesting housing practices and polic... Read More about Renters rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK.

Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies? (2020)
Journal Article
Carmichael, L., Prestwood, E., Marsh, R., Ige, J., Williams, B., Pilkington, P., …Michalec, A. (2020). Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies?. Science of the Total Environment, 719, Article 137146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137146

Research has demonstrated that housing quality is a key urban intervention in reducing health risks and improving climate resilience, addressing a key ambition of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Yet housing quality remains a problem... Read More about Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies?.

A guide to architecture for the public health workforce (2019)
Journal Article
Marsh, R., Pilkington, P., & Rice, L. (2020). A guide to architecture for the public health workforce. Public Health, 178, 120-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.09.013

Background Public health and environmental challenges facing the world in the 21st century, including the ageing population, increasing urbanisation, rise of non-communicable diseases and climate instability, require an interdisciplinary response.... Read More about A guide to architecture for the public health workforce.

(De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, M. (2017). (De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs. New Political Economy, 22(4), 398-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259303

Taking owner-occupation as the quintessential form of financialised housing provision, this paper investigates how housing cultures, understood as a set of shared behaviours and beliefs about housing, have been (re)shaped in the UK in a way that favo... Read More about (De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs.