Research and Projects

Featured Work

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Demonstrating the Social Value of Wheelchair User Homes

We want to talk to wheelchair users, or households that include a wheelchair user, about what a wheelchair accessible home means to you and your family.

How has living in a wheelchair accessible home changed things for your and your family? Has living in a wheelchair user home brought any new opportunities? Read more...

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Reducing the health, social and educational harms of overcrowding in Newham

A project to identify practical and measurable ways of reducing the health, social, and educational harms of living in overcrowded households.

We are looking to speak to households with children under 18, living in overcrowded homes in the London Borough of Newham for this study. Read more...

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Sustainable Communities

Understanding what has happened to low-income communities in different regions of the United Kingdom between 2010-2022, and what policies and interventions can help make low-income communities more sustainable in future. Read more...

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Greening Community Spaces: The value of growing things in combating climate change

Green spaces in urban areas can play a crucial role in tacking climate change

This 24-hour think tank brought together 35 representatives from community growing projects and social housing neighbourhoods to explore the impact of 'greening' projects in communities. Read more...

Energy Plus Academy

Addressing climate change through community action

The Energy Plus Academy aims to bring together groups of people who are concerned about and want to tackle the effects of climate change driven by our over-use of energy. Read more...

Housing Plus Academy

The Academy organises workshops, Think Tanks and roundtables for social housing practitioners, policymakers, frontline staff, and residents. Read more...

Mutual Aid Groups and community responses to COVID-19

LSE Housing & Communities is currently exploring community responses to COVID-19 and are keen to capture the work that is being done. Read more...

Homelessness

LSE Housing & Communities is working with the London Borough of Newham around their homelessness and rough sleeping strategy, evaluating the borough's Housing First pilot, and reviewing Housing First projects in the UK and in Europe. Read more...

Lessons from Grenfell

Following the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, LSE Housing & Communities brought together residents from multi-storey estates around the country to share their views on living in blocks of flats, document their experiences and what lessons they thought were learnt. . Read more...

What will the Social Housing White Paper mean for social landlords?

The November 2020 white paper aimed to ensure that all tenants are safe in their homes and have the power to hold their landlords to account. In this online workshop 35 representatives from social landlords across the country to discussed what these changes will mean in practice. Read more...

Photo of a square in the city of Walbrzych; Source: Dr Bert Provan

City of Walbrzych - mitigating social and economic challenges

LSE was commissioned by the European Investment Bank to work with the city to look at how it was talking its problems, and share some of the good practice from other European cities who were tackling similar problems and successfully identifying what works. Read more...