Anne Power

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

Expertise: housing, communities, urban problems, cities, regeneration, retrofitting, social housing

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7955 6330

Email:

anne.power@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.35 A

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Links:

CASE
LSE Housing and Communities
Department of Social Policy

Biography

Anne Power has been involved in European and American housing and urban problems since 1965. She is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Head of LSE Housing and Communities, a research group based within the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. Anne is author of many books, reports and articles on housing, cities, low-income communities, social impacts of energy efficient retrofit, and sustainability in the built environment. She is a founding Director and current Chair of the National Communities Resource Centre at Trafford Hall; honorary member of RIBA; and was awarded a CBE for services to resident participation and regeneration in 2000.

Anne Power's current research interests are:

Social Housing
Low-income communities
Environment
Retrofit
Regeneration
Urban areas

Anne's latest projects include:

Sustainable Communities: A study of 10 low-income areas across England from 2010 to 2024
Housing Plus Academy: A knowledge-exchange programme to tackle key issues affecting social housing communities
The Commission for Cooperation in Social Housing: Evaluating the work of the commission and the pilot projects implementing the Commission's recommendations

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...