Social Housing and Personal Wellbeing

This project explored the link between good social housing (as an ‘asset’), personal financial and other wellbeing factors to aid housing management and asset allocation policy development.

This project built on notions of ‘decent homes’ that require all social landlords to provide social housing to a high standard. This minimum standard, and similar measures of what is ‘decent’ that exist from various sources such as the OECD, assume specific things that a house should provide to make it a home. In this project we looked at whether some of these have more impact on people’s wellbeing (financial and other) than others. We used common measures of ‘wellbeing’ to determine what should be the key areas social housing providers should focus on, but also supplement this with lots of other questions about the context in which homes are provided by this social landlord and used by their tenants and shared owners.

We collected data from two surveys done with those initially moving into VIVID homes – as social tenants or as shared owners. These surveys were then repeated up to a year later to enable us to see the difference a Vivid social home made to their lives.

The project also included a range of interviews with VIVID tenants, staff and senior management to enable us to beef up the survey data analysis we could perform with qualitative information.

Output: VIVID Research summary report 

CPFW final report on The Impact of Housing Quality and Neighbourhoods on Customer Wellbeing

VIVID press release October 2022

Aston press release October 2022

Partners: VIVID

Team: Halima Sacranie, Lin Tian and Andy Lymer