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Understanding supply, demand and investment in the market for retirement housing communities in England

29 April 2021

Our latest report for Places for People looks at the future of housing options for older people and highlights the constraints faced by the retirement housing market. Discussed at a roundtable of experts in the field, the report calls for increased diversity of housing options for later life and a stronger strategic vision...

Gemma Burgess to speak at Bristol Poverty Institute conference

22 April 2021

Gemma will be speaking on digital exclusion at The Bristol Poverty Institute's upcoming online conference on Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals: From the Local to the Global , to be held 27-29 April 2021. This international, interdisciplinary online conference which will feature a range of sessions across three...

Industry unites behind Vision for the Built Environment

22 April 2021

With contributions from over 75 industry leaders and endorsed by more than 35 cross industry bodies spanning the UK built environment sector, the Vision for the Built Environment describes the future we want: a built environment whose explicit purpose is to enable people and nature to flourish together for generations. For...

Webinar: Supply chain economics and business models for Offsite Manufacturing

24 March 2021

Cambridge Service Alliance and CCHPR are hosting the event on Tuesday 27 April 2021, 1300-1630.

New paper pubished in Housing Studies

24 March 2021

Dr Richmond Ehwi's latest paper, Walls within walls: examining the variegated purposes for walling in Ghanaian gated communities , has been published in Housing Studies this month.

One year on: insights into digital exclusion

23 March 2021

Politico's Digital Bridge newsletter looks at some of the digital mistruths circulating after a year of lockdown, and focuses in on an unfortunate truth - the digital divide is widening.

Discover a new type of Festival!

24 February 2021

The Cambridge Festival takes place from 26 March to 4 April, with more than 350 free online events and activities for everyone.

Four futures, one choice: options for the digital built Britain of 2040

24 February 2021

Experts from the Centre for Digital Built Britain will be talking about their new book at a panel discussion hosted by Dr Erika Parn.

Geographies of MMC: what do we know and what does it tell us?

15 February 2021

We've mapped the location of 350 UK firms specialising in offsite manufacture.

Shared ownership - an increasingly popular route to home ownership

11 February 2021

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing's shared ownership brand, SO Resi, has published new research conducted with Cambridge University into the shared ownership market in England.