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Read more at: Access to mortgages and home ownership for young people; International perspectives

Access to mortgages and home ownership for young people; International perspectives

An article by Peter Williams and Christine Whitehead has been published in Housing Finance International, Winter 2017.


Read more at: Challenges for our home ownership safety net

Challenges for our home ownership safety net

Dr Peter Williams, former Director of CCHPR, has contributed to a report on mortgage borrowing.


Read more at: Peter Williams publishes work on Older Home Owners and Generational Transfers

Peter Williams publishes work on Older Home Owners and Generational Transfers

16 October 2017

Peter Williams, former director of CCHPR, focuses on the issue of rising intergenerational inequality, triggered directly or indirectly via the housing market and looks at how this issue can impact on notions and reality of asset based welfare. Although the chapter focuses on England, many countries have ageing populations...


Read more at: Housing Policy and Market Failure

Housing Policy and Market Failure

Mike Oxley, Director of CCHPR, delivered a public lecture on Housing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in August 2017.


Read more at: Mortgage markets and access to owner occupation for younger households

Mortgage markets and access to owner occupation for younger households

The OECD have published a working paper by Peter Williams and Christine Whitehead, looking at the effects of changes in the regulation of the mortgage market on owner occupation for younger households.


Read more at: Rebuilding the Rented Sector in the UK

Rebuilding the Rented Sector in the UK

CCHPR Research Fellow Peter Williams gave a presentation on the role of buy to let, build to rent and housing associations in the recovery of the private rented sector in the UK housing market to the City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and the NSW Federation of Housing...


Read more at: Affordable housing and institutional investment in Australia

Affordable housing and institutional investment in Australia

This report presents the latest insights into new ways of financing much needed affordable rental housing in Australia, especially by attracting large scale institutional investors into the field.


Read more at: Housing, Planning and Peter Hall; Unfinished Business

Housing, Planning and Peter Hall; Unfinished Business

There is an acute housing problem in England with constrained housing and land supply and planning at the heart of the issue. Peter Hall typically engaged with housing as part of a wider strategic view and his direct housing contributions have probably been overlooked. In part this reflects the...


Read more at: Housing associations and welfare reform: facing up to the realities

Housing associations and welfare reform: facing up to the realities

The National Housing Federation commissioned Ipsos MORI and Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research to assess how welfare reform impacts across the housing association sector in England. This report is the second of a series.


Read more at: Opportunities for institutional investment in affordable housing

Opportunities for institutional investment in affordable housing

This report prepared by Peter Williams (CCHPR), Nick Salisbury (Barclays Corporate Real Estate) and Robin Caven (HCA) on behalf of the HCA’s Housing Finance Group offers an assessment of the potential for institutional investment in affordable housing and puts forward suggestions as to how this...