Evaluations, survey work, qualitative studies and impact assessments commissioned by UK government departments — separated out from the news, and attributed to the agency that carried out the work.
Evidence is presented to support potential changes to Approved Document K guidance covering general access and utility stairs, informing possible updates to building regulations and stair design standards.
Additional statistical analyses have been published using case-level data on statutory homelessness, providing further breakdowns and insights beyond standard homelessness statistics.
HMRC (research) provides local reference rent (LRR) levels for England, broken down by broad rental market area and number of rooms, with figures for September 2026 to guide housing benefit and rent benchmarking.
An overview of financial forecasts from private registered providers of social housing for 2026, summarising projected incomes, costs and financial health indicators across the sector to inform regulation and oversight.
The 106th monthly data release on building safety remediation, updating progress on remediation work, affected buildings and costs as at August 2026 to track delivery of post-Grenfell safety interventions.
Evaluation of the Help to Buy scheme examines its effects on home ownership, housing supply and house prices, and assesses value for money and customer experience across participants and the wider housing market.
Interactive dashboards providing data on statutory homelessness have been published, presenting statistics and visualisations on homelessness applications, acceptances and related metrics under homelessness duties (statutory homelessness).
A MHCLG study tested whether using reservation agreements in residential sales could cut failed transactions by defining how such offers should work, who signs them, timings and consumer protections to improve completion rates.
HMRC publishes local reference rents for England as at August 2026, listing LRRs by number of rooms and Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) to inform welfare assessments and local housing allowance calculations.
Quarterly survey analysing the financial health of social housing landlords for 1 April–30 June 2026, based on provider returns and sector financial indicators.
Regulator of Social Housing is surveying external stakeholders to gather views on the regulator’s performance and social housing regulation, informing future engagement and regulatory approach.
An impact evaluation of Wave 1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund assesses how far the scheme met its objectives to improve energy performance and decarbonise social housing stock.
Interactive dashboards publish the annual rough sleeping snapshot and ongoing rough sleeping data framework management information, offering local and national metrics to track prevalence and trends in rough sleeping.
Management information covering the rough sleeping data framework for April to June 2026, designed to measure prevention of rough sleeping and whether occurrences are rare, brief and non-recurring.
The 105th monthly release updates progress on building safety remediation, providing the latest published figures on remediation activity and outstanding unsafe cladding or safety work.
User research to support development of Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates statistics, gathering perspectives from certificate users to improve data collection, presentation and usability for EPC statistics in England and Wales.
Executive summary of MHCLG-funded research reporting on Phase 1 implementation of Awaab’s Law, outlining early lessons, practical challenges and implications for enforcing standards to improve housing conditions.
Research assesses feasibility of a shared outcomes framework for domestic abuse safe accommodation in England, testing whether common measures can capture victim‑survivor outcomes across services.
National review analyses how housing considerations are incorporated into local strategic health planning documents in England, reporting where housing features in strategies and implications for aligning health and housing priorities.
Findings from the 2025 Rough Sleeping Questionnaire present analysed data on rough sleeping in England, highlighting trends and characteristics of people sleeping rough as captured by the national survey.
Market Value Survey 2024 links house values to dwelling and household characteristics, providing updated estimates of how factors such as property attributes and household makeup affect market value.
Examines how national planning policy and guidance shapes decisions to demolish, redevelop or retrofit buildings, analysing the policy levers, decision criteria and implications for sustainability and heritage considerations.
Rapid evidence assessment on ‘comfort taking’ finds households may raise thermostat set‑points after retrofit, reviewing behavioural drivers and implications for expected energy savings from home decarbonisation measures.
Explores barriers vulnerable owner-occupiers face when installing home decarbonisation measures, using qualitative interviews to detail practical, financial and awareness challenges and suggest ways to improve accessibility and uptake.
Classifies owner-occupiers and private landlords by attitudes to green home finance products, identifying behavioural segments and barriers to take-up to inform product design and policy interventions for retrofit lending and incentives.
Behavioural research examines how the residential sales and lettings sector currently supports — and could better support — homeowners to decarbonise homes, exploring motivations, barriers and potential industry interventions.
Behavioural study examining challenges decarbonising mixed‑tenure social housing in England, focusing on tenant‑landlord dynamics, consent, funding and coordination barriers that complicate retrofits across tenures.
A qualitative literature review synthesises evidence on disabled people’s lived experiences of housing in the UK, covering accessibility, suitability, and everyday barriers in housing stock and services as reported across existing studies and qualitative research.
A research study examines the level and type of support provided across the Supported Housing sector, assessing whether current provision meets local support needs and identifying gaps in services and commissioning approaches.
Phase one process evaluation of the Housing Infrastructure Fund – Forward Funding strand presents early evidence on implementation, decision-making, stakeholder engagement and delivery issues, following an earlier April 2021 scoping report by IFF Research.