Research and useful resources
On this page, you will find links to research on a range of different areas related to the cost of living crisis, along with useful resources to share with tenants.
To contribute a case study or resource to this section, please email bethany-howells@chcymru.org.uk.
Research
General
- Everything affects health: An update to our briefing 'Mind the gap: what's stopping change?' - Welsh NHS Confederation Health and Wellbeing Alliance (November 2022)
- “One meal a day if things increase anymore” - the cost of living and low-income households - Senedd Research (November 2022)
- Under pressure: the financial wellbeing of UK households in June 2022 - Financial Fairness
- How the cost of living crisis is impacting social housing tenants - Chartered Institute of Housing (July 2022)
- Going without: deepening poverty in the UK - Joseph Rowntree Foundation (July 2022)
- Solving the cost of living crisis - National Energy Action (July 2022)
- 'Surviving but not living': the experience of the cost of living crisis for social housing residents - Resident Voice Index (July 2022)
Employability
- Building communities that work: the role of housing associations in supporting employment - The Institute for Public Policy Research (July 2018)
- Employability updates - Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
- Housing and employment updates - Learning and Work Institute
- Housing Associations have a key role in employment support says new report - Optivo (October 2020)
Energy efficiency
- Fuel poverty and the warm homes programme report - Welsh Parliament Equality and Social Justice Committee (May 2022)
- Community insight: understanding fuel poverty - HACT (November 2021)
- Rural Welsh families face £450 bigger hit from energy price rise - Nation.Cymru (September 2022)
- Evidence for the Equality and Social Justice Committee’s Fuel Poverty Inquiry - Community Housing Cymru, Senedd.Wales (2022)
Food security
Income maximisation
- How Housing Associations are supporting tenancy sustainment and income collection through the coronavirus crisis - National Housing Federation (August 2020)
- Welsh Government income maximisation task and finish group - Bevan Foundation (May 2022)
- Financial inclusion among social housing tenants: implications for policy and practice - Public Policy.ie (January 2022)