Kath Scanlon CASE, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE, London School of Economics

Biography

Kath Scanlon is Distinguished Policy Fellow at LSE London. She has a wide range of research interests including comparative housing policy (across all tenures–social and private rented housing as well as owner-occupation), comparative mortgage finance, and migration. Her research is grounded in economics but also 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.

Latest

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...