Dataspring is a research unit within the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, specialising in UK social housing data. It has particular expertise in the stock and rents data provided by housing associations in their Regulatory Statistical Returns (RSR) to the Tenant Services Authority, one of the Centre's key funders. Example uses of the data together with sample Dataspring reports can be found here. As a free service to the social housing community elements of two of our key databases can be interrogated online:

RENTS: Housing association Rents Guides including cross tenure comparisons

STOCK: Housing association stock from 1989 - RSR time-series data by type, size area etc.

Downloadable Housing and Planning Reports

In addition to Dataspring social housing reports the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research has published numerous reports on the interface between housing and land use planning, and issues around the principles of government intervention and the future of housing demand, finance and provision.

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Dataspring contribute to HCA project

As part of our more general work on affordable housing investment, Dataspring are analysing the CORE datasets to help find out what the current provision of affordable housing looks like and whether it is significantly different compared with past provision.

This is part of the Homes and Communities Agency funded project "Analysis of available data on affordable housing investment".

For more information on this project please click here

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Latest Outputs

Trends in Housing Association Stock in 2009 

This paper uses tables from the Tenant Services Authority’s (TSA) Regulatory and Statistical Return and the CORE to describe some of the key changes happened in the housing association sector in 2009, from the previous year and since 2006/07, and in some cases, up to 2002/03. 

Housing Associations and the Movement to Target Rents 2008 to 2009 

Each year the TSA publishes data in the form of a Rents Factfile, a paper that compares actual net rents to target rents as at 31 March of two consecutive years. The Factfile is produced on behalf of the TSA by Dataspring. This most recent paper examines the extent to which actual rents have moved towards target rents in 2008 and 2009 and describes the annual change in gross rents for the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009.

 

Housing Association Service Charges for General Needs Housing, 2003/04–2007/08 

This report looks at how service charges applied to general needs stock by housing associations (HA) vary between different property types and sizes, and between types of HA, by region and looking particularly at London. 

Affordability of Housing Association Rents: Rent-to-Income Ratio vs. Residual Income  

This paper examines residual income measures to investigate the impact of housing association rents on individual household’s capacity to afford an adequate standard of living.