The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is a consortium of 14 institutions led by the University of Glasgow. The centre is a multidisciplinary partnership between academia, housing policy and practice.

Over the course of the five-year programme, CaCHE researchers will produce evidence and new research which will contribute to tackling the UK’s housing problems at a national, devolved, regional, and local level.

CaCHE is led by former Policy Scotland Director Ken Gibb.

CaCHE website

Housing and Infrastructure

The COVID crisis created urgent needs for fast policy insights, such as rethinking care for the homeless, the prevention of evictions and rent gouging and minimising the effects of reduced incomes on maintaining mortgage payments and home-ownership. In the recovery phase, issues will include making better economic cases for housing investment programmes and coping with supply constraints…

Logo of the Shaping Futures project incorporating the letters SF and numbers 21

Changing the Housing Story – report published

Australia, Canada, Dr Sharon Chisholm, Housing economics, Professor David Hulchansk, Professor Duncan Maclennan, Professor Hal Pawson, Professor Ken Gibb, Research project - outputs, UK, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence

The summary report from the Shaping Futures project is now published, following a launch in Australia. The report contains ten principles for housing policy and tax reform intended to provide a coherent framework for reforming housing policies.