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Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research

 

CCHPR was awarded funding for this work from the ESRC as part of their What Works in Tackling Poverty programme. The ESRC funded four new research projects that aimed to advance understanding of effective strategies for tackling poverty. This project explored the role of housing and housing providers in tackling poverty experienced by young people in the UK.

The ESRC funded four new research projects to advance understanding of effective strategies for tackling poverty.  This project explored the role of housing and housing providers in tackling poverty experienced by young people in the UK

The projects ran from October 2014 for two years.  Their findings were intended to help decision makers and practitioners from a wide range of organisations including central government, local authorities and the voluntary sector.  

 

Project Publications:

The role of housing and housing providers in tackling poverty experienced by young people in the UK - Summary and Conclusions

This ESRC-funded study was part of the ‘What Works in Tackling Poverty’ theme, and focused on the role of housing providers in addressing poverty faced by 16-25 year olds. This publication presents a summary of the key findings and conclusions.

The role of housing and housing providers in tackling poverty experienced by young people in the UK - Overview

This ESRC-funded study was part of the ‘What Works in Tackling Poverty’ theme, and focused on the role of housing providers in addressing poverty faced by 16-25 year olds. This paper gives a brief overview of the key findings.

The role of housing and housing providers in tackling poverty experienced by young people in the UK - Moving in and out of poverty

This ESRC-funded study was part of the ‘What Works in Tackling Poverty’ theme, and focused on the role of housing providers in addressing poverty faced by 16-25 year olds. The paper provides some contextual background to the central case study element of the overall project. It presents the findings from an analysis of the change that has occurred in the lives of two cohorts of young people, drawn from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study.

The role of housing and housing providers in tackling poverty experienced by young people in the UK - New evidence from housing providers

This ESRC-funded study was part of the ‘What Works in Tackling Poverty’ theme, and focused on the role of housing providers in addressing poverty faced by 16-25 year olds. This paper presents the findings from the exploratory strand of the work which explored emerging or innovative practice in tackling poverty experienced by young people. Ten case study projects, run by housing providers, were studied over an 18 month period offering a variety of approaches to tackling poverty.

The role of housing and housing providers in tackling poverty experienced by young people in the UK - Literature review

This ESRC-funded study was part of the ‘What Works in Tackling Poverty’ theme, and focused on the role of housing providers in addressing poverty faced by 16-25 year olds. This paper presents the findings from a review of the literature.

Presentations from the launch event - November 2016

These are the presentations given by some of our case study projects for the study's launch event in November 2016

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Funder

ESRC

Project Start Date

1st October 2014

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