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Quality of homes
Report

Making every contact count

New NHF report shows how social landlords are making the most of every engagement with their residents to drive positive change to the condition of their homes, services and health and wellbeing.

17 October 2024
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Rural housing
Report

Rural Life Monitor 2024

The housing crisis is often discussed in terms of how many new homes are needed in total but less often in terms of how this looks in different parts of the country.

01 July 2024
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Supported housing
Report

Supported and older person’s housing development survey: Our key findings

We surveyed our members at the end of 2023 to understand their plans for developing and regenerating supported or older person’s homes, and some of the key barriers they face.  

25 June 2024
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Supply of new homes
Report

State of MMC delivery in social housing report

Explore the latest on Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) in social housing. 

20 May 2024
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Supported housing
Report
Toolkit

How much supported housing will we need by 2040?

New research commissioned by the NHF and completed by Altair Ltd., shows that we’re not on track to provide a supported home to everyone who needs one by 2040.  

17 April 2024
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Finance
Report

The economic impact of building social housing

Building 90,000 social homes could add over £50bn to the economy, according to new research.

27 February 2024
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Supported housing
Report
Case study

Making the case for specialist homes for older people

The Older Person's Housing Group has published a resource to explain the need for specialist housing for older people, outline the barriers to development and make their asks of the government as we head towards a general election.

20 February 2024
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Homelessness
Report

What are housing associations doing to tackle homelessness?

Five years since the NHF began work on supporting housing associations to reduce homelessness, we decided to rerun our initial 2018 survey on homelessness services, to find out where the sector is now.

05 February 2024
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Report

Why we need a long-term plan for housing (report)

As we look to the next general election, we are calling on the party that forms the next government to be ambitious and transformative in its approach to housing. We want to see a clear long-term plan to meet housing need.

20 June 2023
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Universal credit and welfare reform
Resources
Report

Universal Credit and rent arrears - autumn 2021

We wanted to understand how people were managing day-to-day living costs and the financial stability of the sector, as well as how the Universal Credit system has coped throughout the coronavirus crisis.

28 April 2022
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Universal credit and welfare reform
Resources
Report

Coronavirus arrears report ‘Going freestyle: what happens when the rulebook is taken away’

The NHF has jointly published a new report with Placeshapers and whg on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on rent arrears approaches at social landlords.

26 April 2022
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Homelessness
Resources
Report

Housing homeless families

With historically numbers of homeless families currently living in temporary accommodation, we wanted to better understand how social housing is allocated to homeless families.

22 April 2022
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Governance
Resources
Report

Housing associations in 2022: a strategic review

Read our strategic review report setting out key findings into the long term future of the housing association sector.

14 March 2022
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Diversity and equality
Resources
Data
Report

Equality, diversity and inclusion regional data breakdown

The NHF has published regional breakdowns of the data for housing associations to review and act on following the launch of our national equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) report.

 

19 January 2022
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Supply of new homes
Resources
Report

People in housing need 2021

Our People in housing need report looks at the full extent of the housing crisis in England, including how different housing issues affect people across tenures and regions.

15 December 2021
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Diversity and equality
Report

How diverse is the housing association workforce in England?

This report presents the findings of the first ever national picture of EDI within the housing association workforce in England. We have EDI data from 174 organisations, representing 71% of homes owned by housing associations in England.

09 December 2021
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Together with tenants
Resources
Report
Response

Stigma and Social Housing in England report – our response

Read our response to the University of Durham's new report on Stigma and Social Housing in England.

05 November 2021
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Report

How many homes did housing associations build last year?

Our end of year Supply Data report looks at how many homes the sector built over the last year.

23 September 2021
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Universal credit and welfare reform
Report

Universal Credit: claiming during the coronavirus pandemic

Review the findings and recommendations from the largest survey of people living in social housing claiming Universal Credit during the coronavirus pandemic.

04 August 2021
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Supply of new homes
Briefing
Report

How many homes did housing associations build in quarter one 2020/21?

This briefing details the number of homes housing associations developed in the first quarter of 2020/21, plus numbers delivered in the twelve months to June 2020.

17 February 2021
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Report
Climate change

Research report: where are housing associations on the path to net zero?

Research report outlines where housing associations are on the path to net zero carbon emissions.

10 December 2020
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Homelessness
Report

Research report on how housing associations use the Housing First model and recommendations for delivery

This report explores how housing associations are using the Housing First model as a means to address homelessness.

02 December 2020
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Supply of new homes
Report

People in housing need 2020

A comprehensive analysis of the scale and shape of housing need in England today

15 September 2020
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Supported housing
Report

Report on developing new supported housing for people with long-term care and support needs

We have been working with the Housing Learning and Improvement Network to identify the key barriers to developing new supported housing for people with long-term care and support needs, and how these can be overcome.

27 August 2020
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Devolution
Report

Homes for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc

New report promotes the role of housing associations in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc in helping the region to develop and grow.

09 December 2019
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Diversity and equality
Report

Homes for BME Communities

We've been working with BME National to highlight how the government can work with the housing sector to improve housing for BME communities in England.

16 October 2019
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Report

Working together to end homelessness

How local authorities and housing associations can work together to end homelessness.

08 October 2019
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Universal credit and welfare reform
Report

We want the government to fix flaws in the Universal Credit system

We’ve joined the other UK housing federations, Community Housing Cymru, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations to lobby the government for changes to the system.

01 October 2019
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Universal credit and welfare reform
Report

Research on income collection: Housing association changes in response to Universal Credit

Research into any changes our members have made to pre-tenancy and income collection policies and processes in response to Universal Credit. We want to share the learnings from other housing associations regarding approaches they feel work when it comes to the new benefit system.

01 January 2019
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Rural housing
Supply of new homes
Report

Affordable housing saving rural services: rural life monitor 2017

Our report illustrates how building affordable homes in rural areas can help to maintain vital services for local communities.

13 November 2017
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