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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

Email:
k.j.scanlon@lse.ac.uk
Links:
LSE Consulting

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)

Latest

CASEreports
Independent Review of Krakow Metropolitan Area 2030 Strategy

20 October 2023

Bert Provan, Aleksandra Jadach-Sepiolo, Neil Lee, Max Herbertson and Kath Scanlon

This report was commissioned by the European Investment Bank to provide a review of the Krakow Metropolitan Area (KMA) Strategy 2030. The objectives were to review: How the strategic objectives in the KMA 2030 strate... Read more...
CASEreports
Cost-benefit analysis of extending support to domestic abuse victims with NRPF: A technical report for the Domestic Abuse Commissioner

13 December 2022

Kath Scanlon, Bert Provan, Ria Ivandic, Mariña Fernández-Reino, Fanny Blanc and Christine Whitehead

This report provides the technical underpinning to the report by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s Report1 laid before Parliament in December 2022. That report was in response to the Home Office request that she set out ... Read more...
CASEreports
Social Cost Benefit Analysis of the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) policy in London

23 March 2022

Ellie Benton, Jacob Karlsson, Ilona Pinter, Bert Provan, Kath Scanlon and Christine Whitehead

This report estimates the monetised social and economic gains (benefits) of removing of the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition for certain household in England. It compares this to the costs of allowing them to... Read more...

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