Research for Fair Housing Futures

Comprehensive and evidence-based reviews of the issues within Greater Manchester’s private rented sector.

Research and reports

• 5 May 2020
  Renting during COVID-19
  By Irina Dimitriade, Research Manager and Amelia Phillips, Senior Research Executive Mustard Research

• 4 April 2019
  Mapping the Patch and Tenants Voice Summary Report
  By Irina Dimitriade, Amy Harrod, Laura James and Amelia Phillips

• 4 April 2019
  Mapping the Patch and Tenants Voice Full Report
  By Irina Dimitriade, Amy Harrod, Laura James and Amelia Phillips

• August 2018
  Fair Housing Futures Partnership Board Report 2018 - Transforming the Private Rented Sector, Greater Manchester
  By Helen Brzozowski

Research from other organisations

• 30 May 2020
  Coping with housing costs during the coronavirus crisis
  By Lindsay Judge

• October 2019
  Making Home
  By Hannah Webster
  The RSA

• September 2019
  A good landlord scheme for Greater Manchester
  By Dillion Newton and Philip Brown
  Sustainable Housing & Urban Studies Unit

• August 2019
  Tackling the UK Housing Crisis: is supply the answer?
  By Ian Mulheirn, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence

• 25 July 2019
  The private rented sector in the UK
  By Professor Alex Marsh (University of Bristol) and Professor Ken Gibb (University of Glasgow)
  UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence

• June 2019
  Defining and measuring housing affordability - an alternative approach
  By the Affordable Housing Commission

• June 2019
  Scaling up social lettings? Scope, impact and barriers
  By Tom Archer, Rich Crisp, Ed Ferrari, Stephen Green, Lindsey McCarthy, Tom Moore, David Mullins, Ben Pattison, and Halima Sacranie
  Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Nationwide Foundation

• May 2019
  The homelessness monitor: England 2019
  By Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Jenny Wood, Beth Watts, Mark Stephens & Janice Blenkinsopp, Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) and The Urban Institute, Heriot-Watt University; City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales

• 14 December 2018
  The case for reforming private renting: Interim report
  By Darren Baxter and Luke Murphy
  Institute of Public Policy Research

• 21 November 2018
  Homelessness and the private rented sector
  By Dr. Chris O’Leary
  Resident Landlord Association

• March 2018
  Unsuitable,insecure and substandard homes: The barriers faced by older private renters
  By Sue Arthur, Amelia Christie and Ray Mitchell
  Independent Age

• February 2018
  From Homes to Assets
  By Dr Jonathan Silver
  The University of Sheffield

• January 2018
  Precarious Lives: Exploring lived experiences of the private rented sector in Salford [PDF]
  By Lisa Scullion, Andrea Gibbons and Philip Martin
  Salford Council