Research and Knowledge Exchange

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We influence policy from the grassroots up

We carry out research that provides evidence to inform debate, influence policy, and raise public awareness. Our approach supports local people to share their experiences, concerns and priorities and combines this with our practical knowledge of delivering services in the current socio-economic climate.

We convene networks and partnerships with academics, statutory agencies and community organisations to share knowledge and resources, identify research priorities, and create impact by influencing social policy and practice.

Journeys in the shadow private renting sector

“This devastating report lays bare how highly vulnerable tenants are targeted by landlords and letting agents deliberately undertaking multiple breaches of tenancy and housing law in order to maximise their rental profit.”

Martin Wheatley for Inside Housing on our Safer Renting research report – Journeys in the shadow private renting sector

 

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Frontline Services

  • Protecting rights and providing access to justice
  • Tackling poverty and social inequity
  • Crisis mitigation and resilience building
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Research

  • Capturing lived experience throught academic and action research
  • Analysing ‘what works’
  • Multisector knowledge and exchange training
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Influencing

  • Multisector partnerships to model new forms of targeted intervention and engagement
  • Implementation and evaluation
  • Policy formulation

Our team also provide training to statutory and community organisations in the following areas:

Graphic to show the areas of training: housing security, Financial Security, Health and wellbeing, Protection of rights, Access to Justice, Social equity and inclusion

See our latest and past reports below

Licensing Private Rented Homes

Roz Spencer and Julie Rugg

Insights and Experiences from Five London Boroughs

Report by Safer Renting – Published March 2024

Click here to read the full  report

Illegal Eviction Count Annual Update 2021

Ben Reeve-Lewis, John-Luke Bolton and Julie Rugg

Offences under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 in England and Wales: 2021 update of the annual count.

Report by Safer Renting – Published 2022

Click here to read the full  report

Illegal Eviction Count Annual Update 2022

Roz Spencer and Julie Rugg

Offences under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 in England: 2022 update of the annual count 

Report by Safer Renting – Published November 2023

Click here to read the full report

Journeys in the Shadow Private Rented Sector

Roz Spencer, Ben Reeve-Lewis, Julie Rugg and Eusebio Barata

A Cambridge House Research Publication

August 2020

Click here to read the full  report

The social cleansing of London council estates: everyday experiences of ‘accumulative dispossession’

Loretta Lees & Hannah White

© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

Click here to read the full report

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