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1) The Affordable Housing Need in Scotland Post-2026 report is now published. The report quantifies the number of affordable homes required in Scotland to meet need between 2026-31. 🧵
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1) The Affordable Housing Need in Scotland Post-2026 report is now published. The report quantifies the number of affordable homes required in Scotland to meet need between 2026-31. 🧵
downloads.ctfassets.net/6sqqfrl11sfj...
downloads.ctfassets.net/6sqqfrl11sfj...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
1) The Affordable Housing Need in Scotland Post-2026 report is now published. The report quantifies the number of affordable homes required in Scotland to meet need between 2026-31. 🧵
downloads.ctfassets.net/6sqqfrl11sfj...
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The Executive Summary of CaCHE research into affordable housing need in Scotland is now available on the CIH Scotland website. The research found that 15,693 affordable homes are required annually to meet need. Full report due on 23 September.
www.cih.org/publications...
www.cih.org/publications...
Affordable Housing Need in Scotland Post-2026 – executive summary
This executive summary highlights the findings from research on projected affordable housing need in Scotland for the next Scottish Parliament 2026-31. The full report will follow later this month.
www.cih.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Executive Summary of CaCHE research into affordable housing need in Scotland is now available on the CIH Scotland website. The research found that 15,693 affordable homes are required annually to meet need. Full report due on 23 September.
www.cih.org/publications...
www.cih.org/publications...
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September 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has called for long-term funding for the housing budget after new research revealed Scotland needs to build over 15,000 homes per year to meet housing need.
More than 15,000 new homes per year required to tackle Scotland’s housing emergency, report finds
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has called for long-term funding for the housing budget after new research revealed Scotland needs to build over 15,000 homes per year to meet housing need.
www.scottishhousingnews.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has called for long-term funding for the housing budget after new research revealed Scotland needs to build over 15,000 homes per year to meet housing need.
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Read the executive summary of Affordable Housing Need in Scotland Post-2026 research, jointly commissioned by Shelter Scotland, CIH Scotland & SFHA & carried out by the University of Liverpool & Sheffield Hallam University. The full report will be published later this month.
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Affordable Housing Need in Scotland Post-2026 – executive summary
This executive summary highlights the findings from research on projected affordable housing need in Scotland for the next Scottish Parliament 2026-31. The full report will follow later this month.
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September 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Read the executive summary of Affordable Housing Need in Scotland Post-2026 research, jointly commissioned by Shelter Scotland, CIH Scotland & SFHA & carried out by the University of Liverpool & Sheffield Hallam University. The full report will be published later this month.
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Great to see our report on decarbonising social housing at scale featured in Inside Housing's review of recent research. Thanks to Richard Hyde for his engagement with the work.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/late...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/late...
Latest housing research: decarbonisation is an opportunity to transform relationships with residents
A new report suggests solutions to customers refusing access for decarbonisation works. Richard Hyde, chair of the Thinkhouse Editorial Panel, goes through the details.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great to see our report on decarbonising social housing at scale featured in Inside Housing's review of recent research. Thanks to Richard Hyde for his engagement with the work.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/late...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/late...
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About three months until the deadline for the @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social early career researcher's prize - see what winning in 2024 has meant to @michael-s-marshall.bsky.social and get thinking about submitting by checking out the details here www.thinkhouse.org.uk/about/early-...
June 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
About three months until the deadline for the @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social early career researcher's prize - see what winning in 2024 has meant to @michael-s-marshall.bsky.social and get thinking about submitting by checking out the details here www.thinkhouse.org.uk/about/early-...
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Our article in @uk.theconversation.com reveals substantial #play inequalities across #England
Paul Brindley & I looked at England’s largest settlements & mapped patterns from +18,000 #playgrounds within them
Serious #socialjustice issues for #children exist!!
theconversation.com/we-mapped-18...
Paul Brindley & I looked at England’s largest settlements & mapped patterns from +18,000 #playgrounds within them
Serious #socialjustice issues for #children exist!!
theconversation.com/we-mapped-18...
We mapped 18,000 children’s playgrounds and revealed inequality across England
Our maps show some kids have nearer, bigger playgrounds than others.
theconversation.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Our article in @uk.theconversation.com reveals substantial #play inequalities across #England
Paul Brindley & I looked at England’s largest settlements & mapped patterns from +18,000 #playgrounds within them
Serious #socialjustice issues for #children exist!!
theconversation.com/we-mapped-18...
Paul Brindley & I looked at England’s largest settlements & mapped patterns from +18,000 #playgrounds within them
Serious #socialjustice issues for #children exist!!
theconversation.com/we-mapped-18...
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Actually Italia90, to clarify... no.
Heat pumps still have to pass a noise test (called MCS 020) which ensures they do not make a sound above 37 decibels at the nearest neighbouring window.
That's quieter than a library, apparently.
Heat pumps still have to pass a noise test (called MCS 020) which ensures they do not make a sound above 37 decibels at the nearest neighbouring window.
That's quieter than a library, apparently.
May 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Actually Italia90, to clarify... no.
Heat pumps still have to pass a noise test (called MCS 020) which ensures they do not make a sound above 37 decibels at the nearest neighbouring window.
That's quieter than a library, apparently.
Heat pumps still have to pass a noise test (called MCS 020) which ensures they do not make a sound above 37 decibels at the nearest neighbouring window.
That's quieter than a library, apparently.
1) New report published today by @housingevidence.bsky.social. In the report we discuss the challenges of decarbonising social housing at scale. And the responses from social landlords. 🧵
housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
housingevidence.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
1) New report published today by @housingevidence.bsky.social. In the report we discuss the challenges of decarbonising social housing at scale. And the responses from social landlords. 🧵
housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
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*very* cheeky of the Guardian to illustrate this with a picture of Farthing Down, a site of special scientific interest and thus absolutely not the sort of horrible scrubland the mayor's talking about here
Sadiq Khan to announce plans to build houses on London green belt
Sadiq Khan to announce plans to build houses on London green belt
Mayor to make major policy shift and say scale of housing crisis requires breaking taboo
Sadiq Khan is announcing plans to build on parts of London’s green belt, in a dramatic shift in housing policy aimed at tackling “the most profound housing crisis in the capital’s history”.
In a major speech on Friday, the mayor of London is expected to say the scale of the challenge, which could need about 1m new homes built in the next decade, requires a break from longstanding taboos. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
*very* cheeky of the Guardian to illustrate this with a picture of Farthing Down, a site of special scientific interest and thus absolutely not the sort of horrible scrubland the mayor's talking about here
1) New article in IJHP! In the article we evaluate the effectiveness of increased capital grant for social rent. We focus on the MHCLG policy to allocate additional grant to 'high affordability pressure' local authorities in 2018... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Evaluating the effect of grant on affordable housing supply in England using a quasi-experiment
England suffers from an undersupply of affordable housing, in particular the social rented tenure. Long term there has been a decline in government capital grant for new social rented supply, which...
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May 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
1) New article in IJHP! In the article we evaluate the effectiveness of increased capital grant for social rent. We focus on the MHCLG policy to allocate additional grant to 'high affordability pressure' local authorities in 2018... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social early career researcher's prize has launched! Submit papers by 25 Sept. Previous winners include @anyamartin.bsky.social @antbreach.bsky.social @jelliott94.bsky.social @rachelleearwaker.bsky.social @michael-s-marshall.bsky.social www.thinkhouse.org.uk/about/early-...
March 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social early career researcher's prize has launched! Submit papers by 25 Sept. Previous winners include @anyamartin.bsky.social @antbreach.bsky.social @jelliott94.bsky.social @rachelleearwaker.bsky.social @michael-s-marshall.bsky.social www.thinkhouse.org.uk/about/early-...
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Episode 1 of #UrbanRadar is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & many other platforms!
open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas...
In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social & David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.
open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas...
In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social & David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.
February 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Episode 1 of #UrbanRadar is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & many other platforms!
open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas...
In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social & David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.
open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas...
In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social & David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.
"People find this hard to believe, but there is a massive housing surplus in this country. We have a higher ratio of bedrooms to population than ever before." Seen a few articles recently using stats like this to justify opposition to new supply. Thread on why this is wrong and a distraction...
Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"People find this hard to believe, but there is a massive housing surplus in this country. We have a higher ratio of bedrooms to population than ever before." Seen a few articles recently using stats like this to justify opposition to new supply. Thread on why this is wrong and a distraction...
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Delighted to read this write up of @michael-s-marshall.bsky.social @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social prize-winning paper looking at factors associated with non-compliance with the Decent Homes Standard and spatial distribution of non-compliance in England www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/thin...
Thinkhouse prize awarded for index that tracks areas with non-decent homes
Dr Michael Marshall won the Thinkhouse Early Career Researcher’s Prize for his research on decent homes data, creating a tool to predict hotspots of non-decency.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Delighted to read this write up of @michael-s-marshall.bsky.social @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social prize-winning paper looking at factors associated with non-compliance with the Decent Homes Standard and spatial distribution of non-compliance in England www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/thin...
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In our latest blog Prof David Robinson and Dr Michael Marshall (@sheffielduni.bsky.social) explore England’s housing crisis, focusing on older people and the idea that downsizing could help free up homes.
housingevidence.ac.uk/moving-house...
housingevidence.ac.uk/moving-house...
Moving house in older age: are financial incentives likely to work? - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence
Prof David Robinson and Dr Michael Marshall explore England’s housing crisis, focusing on older people and the idea that downsizing could help free up homes. They look at why older […]
housingevidence.ac.uk
December 13, 2024 at 12:35 PM
In our latest blog Prof David Robinson and Dr Michael Marshall (@sheffielduni.bsky.social) explore England’s housing crisis, focusing on older people and the idea that downsizing could help free up homes.
housingevidence.ac.uk/moving-house...
housingevidence.ac.uk/moving-house...
New report released with New Economics Foundation on the potential for land value capture to boost the delivery of new social rented housing.
neweconomics.org/2024/11/buil...
neweconomics.org/2024/11/buil...
Building hope
How land reforms will help deliver the homes we need
neweconomics.org
November 20, 2024 at 11:07 AM
New report released with New Economics Foundation on the potential for land value capture to boost the delivery of new social rented housing.
neweconomics.org/2024/11/buil...
neweconomics.org/2024/11/buil...
Really honoured to announce that I've been awarded the Thinkhouse ECR award for my paper: The spatial distribution of non-decent homes: Introducing the Non-Decent Index
www.thinkhouse.org.uk/about/early-...
www.thinkhouse.org.uk/about/early-...
The winner was Dr Michael Marshall, a Research Associate, University of Sheffield with his paper "The spatial distribution of non-decent homes: Introducing the Non-Decent Index "
www.thinkhouse.org.uk
November 12, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Really honoured to announce that I've been awarded the Thinkhouse ECR award for my paper: The spatial distribution of non-decent homes: Introducing the Non-Decent Index
www.thinkhouse.org.uk/about/early-...
www.thinkhouse.org.uk/about/early-...
Right to buy reform = good.
£500million for AHP = drop in the ocean given the demands on social landlord finances.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
£500million for AHP = drop in the ocean given the demands on social landlord finances.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Chancellor to unlock housing in first Budget
The Budget will deliver more affordable housing, ensure social housing is available for those who need it and turbocharge the delivery of 1.5 million homes.
www.gov.uk
October 28, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Right to buy reform = good.
£500million for AHP = drop in the ocean given the demands on social landlord finances.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
£500million for AHP = drop in the ocean given the demands on social landlord finances.
www.gov.uk/government/n...