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.

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Housing association rent data for 2009

Data from the 'Guide to local rents 2009 Part II: social landlord rents', Tables B1, B2 and B3, and accompanying notes and appendix are available for download.

Click here for the entire dataset

Click here for interactive access

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Latest Outputs

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. 

Comparison of stock, rents and service charges among different types of social landlords - Baseline study: 2007/08 

This paper draws comparisons of stock, rents and service charges between four different types of social landlord; Traditional mixed funded Registered Social LandLords (RSLs); RSLs who have taken over local authority stock via Large Scale Voluntary Transfer; Local authorities (retention LAs); and Arms Length Management Organisations (ALMO). 

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.