An annual review of the housing market said that overall investment in social sector housing was higher than at any time since 1980: but it warned of deep cuts to the housing budget from 2011.
Source: Steve Wilcox, UK Housing Review 2009/10, Chartered Institute of Housing
Links: Summary | CIH press release | BSA press release
Date: 2009-Dec
A report presented information from the households interviewed for the Survey of English Housing Survey (SEH) beginning April 2007. It also contained some analysis of housing-related data from the Labour Force Survey and the Family Resources Survey.
Source: Housing in England 2007-08, Department for Communities and Local Government (0870 1226 236)
Links: Report | Telegraph report
Date: 2009-Sep
A report presented some initial outputs from the SEH15 dataset, a new dataset that combined key household level data from each of the fifteen annual Survey of English Housing datasets from 1993-94 to 2007-08.
Source: Fifteen Years of the Survey of English Housing: 1993-94 to 2007-08, Department for Communities and Local Government (web publication only)
Links: Report
Date: 2009-Sep
An article examined recent key developments in the housing market. These included trends in house prices, indicators of affordability, availability of housing finance, and the impact of demographic changes on housing needs.
Source: Graeme Chamberlin, 'Recent developments in the UK housing market', Economic & Labour Market Review, August 2009, Office for National Statistics, Palgrave Macmillan (01256 329242)
Date: 2009-Aug
The number of households in England was projected to grow to 27.8 million by 2031 – an increase of 6.3 million (29 per cent) over the 2006 estimate, or 252,000 households per year.
Source: Household Projections to 2031, England, Department for Communities and Local Government (web publication only)
Links: Report | Methodology report
Date: 2009-Mar
A report presented some preliminary findings from the Survey of English Housing for 2007-08. It also contained some analysis of housing data from the 2008 Labour Force Survey. There were around 565,000 overcrowded households in England – about 2.7 per cent of all households. 13 per cent of households with a mortgage reported that at some time in the previous 12 months they had been in arrears or had experienced some other difficulty in paying the mortgage. The proportion of younger households (those aged under 30) with a mortgage fell from 40 per cent in 2001 to 32 per cent in 2008: over the same period the proportion of younger households in private renting rose from 33 per cent to 45 per cent.
Source: Survey of English Housing Preliminary Report: 2007-08, Department for Communities and Local Government (web publication only)
Links: Report | Shelter press release
Date: 2009-Jan
