CCHPR provided specialist input to IPSOS MORI as part of an extended piece of work for the National Housing Federation, looking at the impact of current welfare reforms on housing associations and their tenants.
Project Publications:
Impact of welfare reform on housing associations – 2012 Baseline report
The National Housing Federation has commissioned Ipsos MORI and Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research to assess how welfare reform impacts across the housing association sector in England. The first component of the research programme is to establish baseline data and understand pre-emptive behaviour change before the reforms come into force. This will be a precursor to monitoring impact after April 2013, up to March 2014.
With the Welfare Reform Act 2012 heralding the introduction of some of the most significant changes to the administration and distribution of benefits in recent times, the National Housing Federation has commissioned Ipsos MORI and Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research to assess how these changes impact across the housing association sector in England.
The first component of the research programme is to establish baseline data and understand pre-emptive behaviour change before the reforms come into force. This will be a precursor to monitoring impact after April 2013, up to March 2014.
This baseline report focuses on the initial perceptions of the impacts on landlords prior to the introduction of welfare reform changes.
A further report concentrating on the perception of impacts on housing association tenants and featuring the results of in-depth interviews with landlords and tenants, will be published in the Spring.
This report includes a profile of the housing association sector in England, covering information which will help to clarify which associations might be disproportionately affected by changes, and a summary of the potential impacts on housing association landlords from the available literature. The report then presents key findings of an online survey conducted by Ipsos MORI among Federation member housing associations to establish baseline data against which impacts can be monitored in the future.
2012 Baseline Report
Intended and unintended consequences? A case study survey of housing associations and welfare reforms
The National Housing Federation has commissioned Ipsos MORI and Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research to assess how welfare reform impacts across the housing association sector in England. The baseline report was published in late 2012 and this case report builds on that baseline, incorporating the results of 15 in depth case study housing associations.
The Welfare Reform Act 2012 heralded the introduction of some of the most significant changes to the administration and distribution of benefits in recent times. Consequently, the National Housing Federation commissioned Ipsos MORI and Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research to assess how these changes will impact across the housing association sector in England.
The baseline report was published in late 2012 and the results of 15 in depth case study housing associations form the basis of this case report.
The report highlights the high degree of uncertainty for housing associations around much of the impact of welfare reform, and, in particular, the unknown ways in which tenants will respond. Overall, housing associations had concerns around rising rent arrears in the short term resulting from the size criteria affecting under-occupiers, and in the longer term from the change in payment methods under Universal Credit.
Report
Reality dawns – the impact of welfare reform on housing associations: a mid-2014 view
The National Housing Federation commissioned Ipsos MORI and Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research to assess the impacts of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act across the housing association sector in England. This is the third and final report of the series.
The Welfare Reform Act 2012 heralded the introduction of some of the most significant changes to the administration and distribution of benefits in recent times. In order to assess how these changes would impact across the housing association sector in England, the National Housing Federation commissioned research from Ipsos MORI and Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research.
This third and final report examined the impact of a range of welfare reforms on housing associations during 2014.