Staff
Dr Peter Williams
Position(s):
Director of Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR)
Contact information:
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 (3)37115
Email: prw36
External Activity:
- Chairman, Housing Finance Group, Homes and Communities Agency, 2010- ongoing
- Member, Joseph Rowntree Housing Market Taskforce, 2009 - 2011
- Member, Labour Party Housing Policy Review, 2011- ongoing
Recent Presentations:
- Survey of Stakeholders, Shelter and TCPA Roundtable on Assessing Housing Requirements, London, May 9th
- Housing Finance –an overview, presentation to the Labour Party Housing Policy Review, London May 10th
- Alternatives to Home Ownership, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Housing Market Taskforce Report launch event, London May 18th.
Publications:
2010
Home equity: accumulation and decumulation through the life cycle, Research Report, Resolution Foundation, London
2011
The credit crunch in the UK; understanding the impact upon housing markets, policies and households, chapter in Forrest, R and Yip, N, eds (2011) Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis, Edward Elgar, London
Financing –the future? Welsh Housing Quarterly, issue 82, 44&45
With M.Berry, Final Report, Investigative Panel on a Socially Sustainable Housing System for Australia, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne
With N Salisbury and R Caven, Opportunities for Institutional Investment in Affordable Housing, report to the Housing Finance Group, CCHPR, Cambridge
With S Wilcox, A Review of Rent Policy, Welsh Assembly Government, Cardiff (forthcoming)
With C Whitehead, The shape and direction of housing finance and policy in the UK post the GFC, submitted for a Housing Studies Special Issue
Tackling housing market volatility in the UK; the report of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Market Taskforce (I was a member of the 5 person taskforce and a contributor to the report published as authored by Professor Mark Stephens)
Private rental market in England, a report for Darroch ltd for CHRANZ, Government of New Zealand