- Useful Links
This page contains links to national housing and homelessness organisations, central and local government, charities and other sources of information on housing and homelessness.
Links to websites are provided for information purposes - Housing Justice cannot be held responsible for the content of these external sites.
If you would like us to link to your site please email Luke Evans info@housingjustice.org.uk.
Links are sorted into the following categories
Housing policy
Parliament
Housing and homelessness statistics
Population and households
Housing and homeless organisations
Housing media
Charities and campaigning organisations
Research organisations and resources
Voluntary sector
Churches, church organisations and other faith organisations
Housing policy
Government Departments
The main government department responsible for housing and homelessness policy is the Communities and Local
Government department (CLG), formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), prior to that the department of Environment
Communities and Local Government Homelessness Section
Department for Work and Pensions
HM Treasury
Housing Corporation
Home Office
Prime Minister - Number 10 Downing Street
Full A-Z list of government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies
Scottish Executive housing section
Welsh Assembly housing section
Key housing policy documents
Older housing policy documents are on the CLG website but published when the department was known as ODPM
CLG - Homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable - Housing Green Paper (published July 2007)
CLG - Housing in England: A strategic overview of housing policy
ODPM - Sustainable communities: homes for all (2005)
ODPM - Sustainable communities: people, places and prosperity (2005)
ODPM - Sustainable communities: settled homes; changing lives (2005)
ODPM - More than a roof: a report into tackling homelessness (2003)
Scottish Government - Firm foundations: the future of housing in Scotland (November 2007)
Scottish Executive - Homes for Scottish people (2005)
Welsh Assembly Government - National homelessness strategy for Wales 2006 - 2008 (2005)
Welsh Assembly Government - Better homes for people in Wales (2001)
Other government documents
Professor John Hills - Ends and Means: The Future Roles of Social Housing in England (The Hills report) (2007)
HM Treasury - Review of housing supply: delivering stability: securing our future housing needs (the Barker Review) (2004)
HM Treasury / ODPM - Government response to the Barker Review (2005)
Parliament
UK Parliament
Find your MP
Hansard Offical Report
Scottish Parliament
Find your MSP
Scottish Parliament Official Report
Welsh Assembly
Map of Assembly constituencies
Welsh Assembly Record of Proceedings
Political parties' housing policies
Conservative Party - action on housing
Conservative Party Manifesto 2005
Labour Party - communities policy
Labour Party Manifesto 2005
Liberal Democrats - housing policy briefing
Liberal Democrats Manifesto 2005
Housing and homelessness statistics
Compilations of housing statistics
CLG - Housing statistics annual
Professor Steve Wilcox - UK Housing Review
Gypsies and Travellers
CLG - Gypsy and Traveller site data and statistics
Homelessness statistics
CLG - Statutory homelessness statistics for England
(published quarterly in March, June, September and December these figures are compiled by the government from returns from each English local authority)
CLG - Rough sleeping estimates for England
(government rough sleeping estimates are compiled centrally from returns from each local authority - based on the number of rough sleepers observed on one night in the area)
Mayor for London - Homelessness in London bulletin
Scottish Executive - Statistical bulletins on housing, homelessness and households
Welsh Assembly Government - Homelessness statistics
House building
CLG - hous building statistics
House prices
BBC - In depth: mortgages and housing
Provides a summary of the latest house price and mortgage data
CLG - housing market and house prices
Halifax house price index and other housing research releases
Hometrack
Nationwide Building Society house prices review
Rightmove house price index
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market surveys
Often the different house prices indices show apparently contradictory results on a monthly basis (eg one index indicates house prices rising, another falling) - this is due to a difference in the way that the data is collected. Halifax, Nationwide and CLG base their data on actual transactions weighted to take account of regional variations and the number and mix of properties sold. Hometrack and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors conduct a survey of what is happening to all houses on the market which includes sold and unsold houses.
Housing conditions
CLG - Housing conditions including Decent Homes
Housing stock and tenure
CLG - Housing stock by tenure
Population, households
UK population 59,050,800
Households 21,660,475
(Source National Statistics Census 2001)
Household projections
CLG - Household and population projections
The government projections show that there will be an increase of 223,000 households a year in England between 2004 and 2026 - this projection is used to plan for new housing, services etc
Scottish Executive - Household estimates and projections
Welsh Assembly Government - National and sub-national population projections for Wales
Housing and homelessness organisations
Centrepoint
Chartered Institute of Housing
Citizen's Advice
Council of Mortgage Lenders
Crash
Crisis
Empty Homes Agency
Field Lane
Foyer Federation
Hact
Homeless Link
Homeless Pages
House Builders' Federation
London Housing
National Federation of Residential Landlords
National Housing Federation
The Passage
Salvation Army
Scottish Churches Housing Action
Scottish Council for Single Homeless
Shelter
Town and Country Planning Association
UK Coalition on Older Homelessness
Housing media
24Dash
Community Care
Inside Housing
New Start
The Pavement
Regeneration and Renewal
Roof
Society Guardian
Charities and campaigning organisations
Barnardo's
Child Poverty Action Group
Children's Society
Debt on our Doorstep
NCH Action for Children
YMCA
Research organisations and resources
Crisis policy bulletin
Housing Policy Library
Institute of Public Policy Research
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
York University Centre for Housing Research
Voluntary sector
National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Churches
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
Baptist Union of Great Britain
Catholic Church in England and Wales
Catholic Church in Scotland
Church of England
Church of Scotland
Church in Wales
Evangelical Alliance
Methodist Church
Salvation Army
Society of Friends (Quakers)
United Reformed Church
Church organisations
Caritas Social Action
Church Action on Poverty
Church Urban Fund
Commission on Urban Life and Faith
Joint Public Issues Team
National Justice and Peace Network
Scottish Churches Housing Action
Other faith organisations
Faithworks
Church based housing initiatives
Church in New Housing Areas: website produced by CTE looking at issues and opportunitues for the church in the areas where new housing is to be built