Improve the UK housing and homelessness situation?
Professor Glen BramleyProfessor Suzanne FitzpatrickKey data in the UK Data Service collection have played an important part in modelling key housing outcomes as part of a body of research by Professors Glen Bramley and Suzanne Fitzpatrick which has had significant impact on housing and homelessness policy in the UK.
We explore a few ways their work has had impact. To find out more, read their case study.
The Homelessness Monitor
Bramley and Fitzpatrick have, since 2011, carried uae rcs data out research for the Homelessness Monitor, independent longitudinal analysis for the charity Crisis of how economic and policy developments have impacted on homelessness.
Analysis of key data available from the UK Data Service (Labour Force Survey – LFS, English Housing Survey – EHS, Understanding Society – the UK Household Longitudinal Study) have allowed the researchers to track trends in concealed households, overcrowding, sharing and household headship rates.
The Homelessness Monitor’s figures, having uncovered shortcomings in official measures, have themselves been challenged and led to changes.
In 2015, the then Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Ian Duncan Smith referred the Homelessness Monitor 2015 to the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) in disagreement with their variance from official statistics.
The UKSA not only found in favour of the researchers behind the Homelessness Monitor but launched an enquiry into the official statistics, reporting critically on the Government’s methods for collating homelessness figures.