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Kath Scanlon

Kath Scanlon

CASE Associate and Distinguished Policy Fellow

Expertise: housing policy (uk and international), private renting, rent regulation, social housing, collaborative housing and cohousing, housing finance and mortgage products, cost-benefit analysis, evaluation of housing programmes


Biography

Kath Scanlon is Distinguished Policy Fellow at LSE London. Her research interests include comparative housing policy (across all tenures–social and private rented housing as well as owner-occupation), comparative mortgage finance and collaborative housing. Her research is grounded in economics but draws on techniques and perspectives from other disciplines including geography and sociology, and aims at improving the evidence base for policy decisions at national or local level. Kath has been based at LSE for 25 years. She has run on a series of projects focusing on ways of accelerating new housing development in London, and is currently leading the evaluation of a pilot programme to support homeowners to improve properties in disrepair. She has worked with a number of national and international institutions and is secretary of the European Network for Housing Research.

Kath Scanlon's current research interests are:

  • Housing policy (UK and international)
  • Private renting
  • Rent regulation
  • Social housing
  • Collaborative housing and cohousing
  • Housing finance and mortgage products

Kath's latest projects include:

  • Evaluation of Good Home Links (ongoing, from September 2024)

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