News Flash! - Helping Providers Assess the Impact of NAHP Affordable Rents

The new national affordable housing programme (NAHP) poses many challenges for housing associations and local authorities. Landlords have to assess how many current and future residents might be able to pay an affordable rent which is higher than the current social housing rent (with and without housing benefit). To assist this process CCHPR has developed a model through which associations and authorities can assess the number of working households/not working who might be able to pay an affordable rent (set at 80/70/60% of market rent) by property type and size, local authority area and wider market area.

We are now able to offer this NAHP affordable housing calculator service at a very modest cost to associations and authorities. It offers a quick and authoritative assessment and we supply output in the form of a number of easily read tables. We can offer rapid turnaround to help meet programme bid timetables or subsequent strategic discussions. Please contact us for details of what we can do and the cost of this service.

About Dataspring

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 former funders. Example uses of the data together with sample Dataspring reports can be found here. As a paid service the social housing community can access elements of two of our key databases:

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.