Publications
Our publications focus on the latest policy topics and practical advice that you need to do your job. CIH members can access all our publication documents for free, please ensure you are logged into the website.
How to support hate crime victims
This publication focuses on ways that housing providers respond to hate crimes once they have occurred and intervention in neighbourhoods and estates to reduce crime and improve community relations.
This publication focuses on ways that housing providers respond to hate crimes once they have occurred and intervention in neighbourhoods and estates to reduce crime and improve community relations.
How to adapt your approach to rent collection for universal credit
This guide is intended to provide an overview of emerging good practice, to help inform how you respond to universal credit in your organisation.
How to enhance temporary accommodation provision
This brief outlines the wider policy context, considers the different models of providing TA.
It also provides some case study examples to demonstrate how others have been able to successfully provide more cost effective and suitable TA in their areas.
What you need to know about Brexit and how it might affect migration
The Brexit vote has already led to speculation that there will be more controls over immigration and on migrants’ eligibility for services such as welfare benefits and social housing.
Nothing will change in the short term and timescales are not yet known, but here we sketch out some of the key issues about housing need and eligibility for housing which will have to be addressed.
The case for boosting the supply of sub market housing
This briefing paper sets out the case for reconfiguring current government housing programmes which are dependant on an uncertain homeownership market to boost the supply of sub market housing.
Investing in council housing
This report from the CIH and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy examines the 2012 'self-financing settlement' that put in place a robust long-term plan for council housebuilding
The settlement encouraged councils to take on £13bn extra debt to finance building against the promise of future rental income. However, successive policy changes have cut rental income so that today, just 45,000 new homes are expected, no more than were planned before the settlement was made.
How to support anti-poverty initiatives
This looks at anti-poverty programmes and initiatives, looking at why tenants experience poverty and why housing organisations are in an ideal position to tackle poverty in their communities
2016 UK Housing review briefing paper
This Briefing goes to press just before the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, whose result may well have implications for the economy and for migration.
These will only emerge with time, however, and for the moment the most significant recent events, taken into account here, are the March Budget and the devolved government elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What you need to know about the revised regulatory framework for housing associations in Wales
This briefing provides you with the latest changes to housing association regulation following the release of a new regulatory framework.
What you need to know about the Scottish Planning Review
CIH members can now download our new briefing on what you need to know about the Scottish Planning Review.
What you need to know about Scotland's new Cabinet
CIH members can download our new briefing on what you need to know about Scotland's new Cabinet and Ministers.
The introduction of the LHA cap to the social rented sector
The aim of the research is to assess the likely extent of the impact, estimating how many young people in Scotland will be affected and what the financial implications will be.
CIH Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Government, commissioned Indigo House Group to carry out a piece of research into the impact of the introduction of the LHA cap to the social rented sector on young people in Scotland.
Mind the gap
CIH is calling for the government to consider realigning LHA rates, particularly those for shared accommodation due to the difficulties this makes for under-35s in accessing affordable housing.
Since April 2012 the gap between local housing allowance (LHA) and actual rents in the private sector has grown as LHA has not kept pace with rent increases. This is set to worsen as LHA rates will be frozen for four years from April 2016.
Regeneration revival? Making housing-led regeneration work across England
This research seeks to address the potential benefits of housing-led regeneration in the current context, the types of projects currently occurring, and the lessons that can be learned from them
What you need to know - the election results
Our teams across the devolved nations put together a briefing looking at the headlines from each country as the election results became apparent.
Contributors were Ashley Campbell (Scotland), Julie Nicholas (Wales), Justin Cartwright (Northern Ireland).
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