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 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...
This is a quick guide to the green belt. The guide started its life from a question that the institute was asked by a council: is the green belt forever, even if it no longer serves its purpose? The green belt is an emotional as well as a highly technical topic. Like all such emotional a...
The HFi's report calls for a radical planning shake-up to solve London's housing crisis that would professionalise decision-making in the planning system, increase the supply of land suitable for house building and allow substantially greater densities of homes in the capital. The paper sets out ...
Britain is still building New homes starts are the fifth best in a quarter of a century There is no evidence of a Brexit wobble London is lagging A sharp decline in last year's housing figures may herald a longer-term decline London may need additional and special measures to reverse it...
June 2017 has been one of the saddest in housing for many decades. A few days ago, a tower block which had dominated the West London landscape for over forty years was consumed in a devastating fire. The Grenfell death toll has reached 79. The dead and injured over 100 men, women and children. Th...
