Anne Power

Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Head of LSE Housing and Communities

Expertise: communities, housing, cities, sustainable development, neighbourhoods

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7955 6330

Email:

anne.power@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.36 A

Connect:

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Links:

CASE
LSE Housing and Communities

Biography

Anne Power's current research interests are:

Cities and sustainable development
Disadvantaged and run-down neighbourhoods
Race relations
International and UK housing

Anne's latest projects include:

CASE - 200 families study
Newcastle and Manchester abandonment studies
Community self-help and social capital

Latest

CASEreports

Community Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis

13 February 2023

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

The cost-of-living crisis is affecting households across the UK, many of whom are increasingly struggling to meet day-to-day costs, including energy, food, transport, and other essentials. With limited state support to a... Read more...

CASEreports

Keeping Communities Together: How smaller social landlords and community-led housing can provide affordable, secure, low cost accommodation for communities in need

21 April 2022

Ellie Benton, Anne Power and Ruby Russell

This report sets out the potential for small, community-based housing organisations to deliver homes for people in housing need, within their own communities. It uncovers innovative examples and models for how this can b... Read more...

CASEreports

Climate Crisis/Housing Crisis: How can social landlords reconcile safety and energy saving?

11 March 2022

Ellie Benton, Ruby Russell, Anne Power and LSE Housing and Communities

CASEreports

Oasis Community Housing: Review of change through COVID and beyond

03 December 2021

Anne Power and Bert Provan

Small, locally based housing associations provide invaluable local services to homeless and rough sleeping people. Oasis Community Housing undertakes this work in Gateshead, Sunderland and South Tyneside, providing day c... Read more...

CASEreports

What is the role of housing associations in providing intermediate and market rented housing?

04 October 2021

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

CASEreports

Community Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic: Case Study Report

09 February 2021

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that followed created a unique set of circumstances: people over 70 and those with underlying health conditions were forced to self-isolate; day to day activities stopped; people be... Read more...

CASEreports

Community responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic: How mutual aid can help

09 February 2021

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

The beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic caused panic over job losses, food and toiletry shortages and social isolation, over and above the health impacts of the virus. People wanted to help on a mass scale and there was ... Read more...

CASEreports

Opening Doors: An evaluation of the London Borough of Newham's Housing First Pilot Project

05 February 2021

LSE Housing and Communities, Laura Lane, Anne Power and Bert Provan

In 2018, the London Borough of Newham (LBN) commissioned LSE Housing and Communities to undertake an evaluation of their "Housing First" pilot project. The main objectives for the evaluation were: 1. To understand the pr... Read more...

CASEreports

Estate Regeneration and Social Value

22 August 2019

Anne Power and Bert Provan

Home Group is committed to assessing the social value to low income communities of regeneration and upgrading. This research was commissioned by Home Group and closely links to their recently developed “Customer Promise”... Read more...

Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy Seminar

Making Social Housing Warm, Energy Efficient and Fair following the Grenfell Disaster

09 November 2017

Anne Power (CASE, LSE)

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Welfare Reform: the impact on housing associations, tenants and communities

26 November 2014

Anne Power (CASE, LSE)

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Property before people

09 July 2012

Anne Power (CASE, LSE)

CASE Special Events

Book launch: City Survivors: Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods

22 November 2007

Anne Power (CASE, LSE)

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

City Survivors: Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (presentation and book launch)

22 November 2007

Anne Power (CASE, LSE)

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Launch of 'Jigsaw Cities' (Booking essential)

14 March 2007

Anne Power (CASE, LSE)

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

What's been happening to British cities?: Population change, ethnicity, and concentrated poverty 1991-2001 - evidence from the Census.

08 December 2004

Anne Power (CASE, LSE)