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LSE Housing and Communities - New Research Project
Mutual Aid Groups and community responses to COVID-19

LSE Housing and Communities has a long-standing interest in the role of mutual aid and self-help groups in developing responses to community problems. Since the start of the lockdown, 10 million people have volunteer... Read more...

8 June 2020

CASE Blog post
The Grenfell Inquiry Report gives the government a lot to act on

Anne Power outlines the key recommendations of the Grenfell Inquiry Report, and writes that the government, the London Fire Service, owners of multi-storey residential blocks, and councils must act on the findings. Yo... Read more...

7 November 2019

CASE Blog post
Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Housing Plus and the wider role of social landlords in low income communities

Professor Anne Power, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Head of LSE Housing and Communities, wrote about the role of social landlords in low income communities. In her article she... Read more...

16 October 2019

New blog post by Bert Provan
Stop doing things to residents of poor neighbourhoods without asking what they need

These days, few organisations can escape the clamour to assess the ‘Social Return on Investment’, or SROI, of proposed new projects. But how often are local people actually asked what they need from local... Read more...

5 November 2018

CASE special event
From Input to Influence: how can the participation of people in poverty shape research and public policy?

A joint event with ATD Fourth World and Goethe University was held on Friday 16th November 2018. Speakers: Tom Croft (Member of ATD Fourth World's International Volunteer Corps) &Moraene Roberts (activ... Read more...

24 October 2018

Special event held as part of the Social Exclusion seminar series
What difference does devolution make for social policies and distributional outcomes?

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain programme series Wednesday 4th July 2018 Listen to the audio recording... Read more...

4 July 2018

Postponement of the forthcoming CASE Welfare Policy Analysis Seminar
Wednesday 14th March, Monica Costa Dias Institute for Fiscal Studies

  In the light of the UCU strike action, we have decided to post... Read more...

9 March 2018

Lessons from Grenfell:
bringing together residents from multi-storey estates around the country

Following the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, LSE Housing and Communities were grant funded to bring together residents from multi-storey estates around the country to share their views on living in blocks of flats,... Read more...

2 March 2018

Postponement of Social Exclusion seminar planned for
Wednesday 28th February

In the light of the UCU strike action, we have decided to postpone this event: Wednesday 28th February, 16:30-18:00 The Uneven Impact of Welfare Reform on Places and People Professor Christina Beatty Apolo... Read more...

23 February 2018

Help to Buy has had little impact on extending home ownership to lower income households
New blog post by Dr Bert Provan

The Government's pledge to extend the "Help to Buy" programme is a further mistaken investment in a policy which has had little impact on extending home ownership to lower income households, explains Bert Prova... Read more...

3 November 2017