The Housing & Finance Institute researches on a board range of housing and finance related matters, including on budget matters and through our business market sentiment work. Our research and publications respond to issues arising in the marketplace, business and local government.
The HFi research papers have been extensively covered in the national and trade press.
Publications have included the following:
The Pre Budget Briefing 2025 - download the paper HERE This important Budget Statement is made against the backdrop of some of the worst results for housing delivery in the last 50 years outside of the credit crunch and its immediate aftermath. The Housing & Finance Institute has produced...
Angela Rayner's resignation last week saw the appointment of the Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP as Housing Secretary. The question on everyone's mind is whether this will herald a change in government policy for housing delivery? Steve Reed takes over the brief against a backdrop of some of the worst hou...
On 11 June 2025 the Chancellor will deliver the Spending Review. This year's Spending Review will set out in detail three years of plans for department-level day-to-day spending (covering 2026–27, 2027–28 and 2028–29) and four years of plans for investment spending (extending to 2...
What to look out for in the first Budget of the new Government On 30 October 2024 the first Budget of the new Government since the general election will be delivered. Budget watch: what is the Budget likely to cover? The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has pointed out that the Autumn Budget co...
The Housing & Finance Institute urges a "Budget for Housing" to solve Britain's Housing Crisis The Housing and Finance Institute has called for the Chancellor to make this budget a "Budget for Housing" to solve Britain's Housing Crisis. The cross-party institute has set out a twelve-poin...
Operation Homemaker - March 2023 Operation Homemaker is a Housing & Finance Institute project. The Operation Homemaker Report can be downloaded here: Download Operation Homemaker Operation Homemaker is a call to deliver 100,000 affordable homes in a year and a half, prioritising housing p...
The Housing Finance Institute (HFI) and Localis today publish a 30-page blueprint designed to stimulate a new generation of council homes authored by Peter Bill and Jackie Sadek. 'Public Rental Homes – fresh perspectives' provides a solution to the challenge that just 6,000 of the 52,000 new ...
A radical shift in housing policy is needed to create Good Homes for every generation through a dramatic expansion of both social rented homes and home ownership. This is set out in a major new report today from the Housing & Finance Institute and housing association, Radian, A Time for Good ...
This is a quick guide to the 2017 Autumn Budget. Housing is set to dominate the 2017 Autumn Budget. Yet there is more than one type of budget where housing can be key. In this paper we have identified six budget areas and we will be looking at the balance of policy and financial measures within e...
The HFi's Recommendations report is released for consultation today (14 November 2017). It follows a six-month government backed pilot research programme which brought together key players from private and public sectors. The research programme was launched in response to evidence in previ...
