How have the data helped us understand and improve the UK housing and homelessness situation?
We were fortunate to work with Professors Glen Bramley and Suzanne Fitzpatrick of the Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (i-SPHERE) of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Their extensive bodies of research over a switzerland rcs data number of years have used data in the UK Data Service collection (including the Labour Force Survey , the English Housing Survey and Understanding Society) to both help understand the UK situation with regards to housing and homelessness as well as influence policy.
For over a decade, they have been part of a team creating the Homelessness Monitor in partnership with Crisis, the homelessness charity, and the Jospeh Rowntree Foundation. This longitudinal study provides an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in the UK.
underpinning a private member’s bill which became the Homeless Reduction Act 2017 improving official homelessness statistics improving public scrutiny of the Government’s record on homelessness influencing targets and Government research programmes changing policy in Scotland .