News Archive30/01/2010 - New Dataspring Mailing ListJoin our new mailing list to receive latest news on Dataspring publications 22/12/2009 - Housing Associations and the Movement to Target Rents 2008 to 2009Each year the Tenant Services Authority (TSA) publishes a Rents Factfile looking at key housing association rent data and the movement towards target rents. This paper is produced by Dataspring on behalf of the TSA. The 2008 to 2009 analysis is now availble for download on the Datspring website.
16/12/2009 - Housing association rent data for 2009Data 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 15/12/2009 - Guide to Local Rents 2009 Part IIIWe are pleased to announce that the Guide to Local Rents 2009 Part III: Social Landlord Rents – Supported Housing is now available for download. The tables provide comprehensive data on the pattern of housing association rents and service charges for supported housing and housing for older people at individual housing association, local authority and regional levels. 24/08/2009 - Presentation made by Connie Tang to 2009 Housing Researchers Conference in SydneyA presentation was made by Connie Tang to 2009 Housing Researchers conference in Sydney on using multiple perspectives (rent-to-income ratios and residual incomes) in evaluating housing affordability in the housing association sector in England. more 24/08/2009 - Trends in housing association stock in 2008As the major provider of social housing, the housing association sector has been continuing to evolve despite the economic recession in 2008. A new Dataspring briefing paper on behalf of the Tenant Services Authority is now available for download, focusing on key HA activity in 2008. 06/05/2009 - De-regulation to re-regulation: Rents in the housing association sector in EnglandDr Connie P. Y. Tang presented a paper in April at the Housing Studies Association Conference 2009 in Cardiff on the current structure of housing association rents in England. more 28/11/2008 - Guide to Local Rents 2008 Part IIIWe are pleased to announce that the Guide to Local Rents 2008 Part III: Social Landlord Rents – Supported Housing is now available for download. The tables provide comprehensive data on the pattern of housing association rents and service charges for supported housing and housing for older people at individual housing association, local authority and regional levels. more 06/10/2008 - New paper on rent restructuring policy publishedA paper on rent restructuring policy by Dataspring project manager Connie Tang has just been published in 'Housing Studies' journal. The paper empirically evaluates the market and welfare impacts of rent restructuring in the housing association (RSL) sector. more 27/08/2008 - Guide to local rents 2008 Part II: Social Landlord RentsPart II Tables and Notes for the Rents Guides are now available for download and available for interactive access - earlier than in previous years and ahead of the published schedule! more 22/08/2008 - 4 new reports published on social v private rents, owner occupation costs and rates of returnDataspring publishes new outputs on the relationship between housing association and private rents and the equivalent costs of owner occupation. Please click here to see our latest outputs more 01/08/2008 - Dataspring Housing Market databaseDataspring's Housing Market database contains cross tenure rents, house prices and demographic and socio-economic variables. This fully uptodate resource is now available for commissioned Housing Market and bespoke reports. For more information please click here 18/12/2007 - Housing Associations and the movement to target rents, 2006 to 2007Each year the Housing Corporation publishes data in the form of a Rent factfile, a paper that compares actual net rents to target rents as at 31 March of two consecutive years. The Rent factfile is produced on behalf of the Housing Corporation by Dataspring. This year's paper compares 31 March 2006 and 31 March 2007 and examines the extent to which actual rents have moved towards target rents. It also describes the annual change in gross rents for the period 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007. Download here. more 01/11/2007 - Dataspring SeminarOn 17 October 2007 the Dataspring team reported progress on the various projects they are currently undertaking for the Housing Corporation as part of their Statistical Service research contract. Presentations from the event, which was attended by board members and staff from the Housing Corporation, are available for download below. more 11/09/2007 - The role of housing associations in the intermediate market
20/08/2007 - National Register of Social Housing: Lessons Learned
19/08/2007 - Martin Cave speaking at the 2nd Annual Cambridge Regulation Conference
more 16/08/2007 - Response to the Cave ReviewThe Centre’s response to the Cave Review stressed the fundamental principles of inclusive regulation covering the core activities of the social rented sector it concentrated on the importance of not only putting tenants first, but also insuring sustainability of the ‘industry’ given these two over arching requirements we consider that only a fully independent regulator with responsibility across all providers can operate effectively. more 29/06/2007 - Trends in Housing Association stock in 2006
01/06/2007 - Historical Statistics of Housing in BritainThis major new publication based on a large scale ESRC project contains an assessment of how British housing has changed over the last century together with 315 tables and associated commentary. more 16/02/2007 - Sector Study: It all adds up
08/02/2007 - 2006 RSR data now availableYou can now access 2006 housing association (HA) Regulatory and Statistical Return (RSR) data at local authority and HA level. Data are available as a time series from 1989 to 2006; Please click here to go directly to the interactive time-series page. 25/01/2007 - Two new rents reports available to downloadTwo Dataspring reports providing detailed analyses of Housing association rents and the movement towards target rents are now available for download. more 21/12/2006 - Profile of the Housing Association Sector in 2006Each year, Dataspring produces a 'Profile of the Housing Association Sector’ on behalf of the Housing Corporation, a report based on stock and rent information provided by HAs in the Regulatory and Statistical Return. The report comprises approximately 90 data tables, two technical papers and a brief summary of findings. A full set of tables for 2006 are now available for download. Please click here to download. 15/12/2006 - Housing association rent data for 2006Data from the 'Guide to local rents 2006 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. 'Guide to local rents 2006 Part I: cross tenure rents', Tables A1 and A2 will be available early in the New Year. 19/06/2006 - For the RecordUsing data from the Housing Corporation's annual Regulatory and Statistical Return to analyse trends in the Housing Association sector. A series of short briefing papers summarising changes in the HA sector between 1989 and 2005. more 08/05/2006 - HA Rents: Improvements in AffordabilityAverage rents for two bedroom properties, as a proportion of lower quartile earnings, declined during the period 1998/99 - 2004/05, indicating an improvement in affordability. Click here for more information. 29/03/2006 - Profile of the HA Sector in 2005Each year, Dataspring produces a 'Profile of the Housing Association Sector, a report based on stock and rent information provided by HAs to the Housing Corporation. The full set of tables and accompanying technical papers are now available for download. Please click here 08/03/2006 - Interactive RSR 2005 data now availableYou can now access RSR 2005 data at local authority level within the Dataspring interactive RSR time-series page. Data from 1989 to 2005 are available; Please click here to go directly to the interactive time-series page. 07/03/2006 - Housing association rent data for 2005Data from the 'Guide to local rents 2005 Part I: cross tenure rents' and 'Guide to local rents 2005 Part II: social landlord rents', Tables A1, A2, B1, B2 and B3, and accompanying notes, appendix and commentary, are available for download. Click here for the entire dataset, or click here for interactive access. 01/11/2005 - Key Trends in Housing Association stockAs the major provider of social housing, the housing association sector is changing significantly as the governance of social housing changes. A briefing paper exploring key trends in the sector is now available for download. more 03/10/2005 - 15 Years of Housing and Planning ResearchAt the end of September, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research. An invited audience of housing practitioners and academics attended a seminar where the Centre’s researchers gave presentations and led discussions on: Understanding the Rent Restructuring Formula for Housing Association Target Rents The monitoring and analysis of change within the housing association sector since 1989; and Planning for affordable housing |
A new sector study has been published looking at the extent to which housing associations are involved in the provision of homes on the intermediate market. 
NROSH is set to replace the Housing Corporation Regulatory Statistical Return as the primary way of collecting regulatory data within the next few years. To date seventy-three housing associations have provided some data via NROSH. This report highlights the lessons learned from the top six. 
Prof. Martin Cave spoke on his review of social housing regulation at a conference at Peterhouse on 12 Sep 2007. The conference, 'The End of Zero Risk Regulation' was chaired by Paul Sanderson from Dataspring. It addressed the implications of greater toleration of risk in the regulation of housing, health, transport etc. Conference papers can be downloaded 
Over the last 20 years housing associations (HAs) have been steadily increasing their housing stock and their share of social housing provision. A new briefing paper has now been published focusing on key areas of HA activity during 2005/06. 
