Housing & Communities
Living within a strong, supportive community and having access to safe, affordable housing that provides a comfortable standard of living are essential for our sense of stability and wellbeing.
Investigating the factors affecting access to housing and the health of communities is key to improving the lives of people living in the UK.
ADR UK has a number of data linkage projects, as well as research projects using existing linked data, underway to provide valuable new insights into the factors affecting the fabric of our communities and housing dynamics.
ADR Wales, for example, has explicitly identified housing as a key focus and the bedrock of living well, underscoring that good quality, affordable homes bring a wide range of benefits to health, learning and prosperity. It is therefore working to link Welsh data that will enable new insights into homelessness and its connection to health and education outcomes.
Meanwhile, ADR Scotland is supporting Scottish Government priorities around promoting safer communities and contributing to a public health approach to reducing violence. Researchers are using linked administrative data to better understand the connections between service demand and aspects of distress or vulnerability, including alcohol and other drugs, and mental health conditions.
ADR Northern Ireland (ADR NI) is also working on a number of projects aimed at improving policies relating to housing and communities. For example, by linking data relating to families, healthcare, environment and education, neighbourhood and community determinants of social distress as indicated by contact with emergency hospital services can be explored.
You can find out more about these projects and others underway within this theme by exploring the links below and visiting the ‘Projects’ page.
Housing & Communities Projects
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ADR Wales themed projects: Social Justice
22 September 2023
This ADR Wales research agenda will cover inequalities in health outcomes, treatment, accessibility to services, opportunities, and education for the population of Wales. It will utilise linked anonymised, individual-level, population-scale data that is routinely collected. This includes demographic, health, environmental, administrative and social data.
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ADR Wales themed projects: Major Societal Challenges
14 September 2023
To address currently identified and new emerging priority areas for government, ADR Wales has created a Major Societal Challenges work stream. This will monitor, evaluate and research the impacts of major societal challenges over time and across generations for the whole population.
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ADR Wales themed projects: Housing and Homelessness
14 September 2023
How do we make a Wales where homelessness is rare, brief and unrepeated? This important question drives ADR Wales research under this thematic area. It will explore opportunities for more timely interventions, and produce an evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness, for whom, and in what context.
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Housing & Communities News
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The power of people: a human geographer’s mission to end homelessness
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Data linkage funding will drive new insights into the health of households
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ADR Wales publishes analysis of the Supporting People Programme
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ADR UK invests further funding in AD|ARC: A UK-wide agricultural data programme
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Farming and farmers in Northern Ireland: Working in partnership to create a data linking project
Publications
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Data Insight: Using the Earnings and Employees Study 2011 to estimate Catholic-Protestant wage differentials
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Data Insight: Are farm households different? Some evidence from Wales
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Homelessness Data England linked dataset: Key messages from stakeholders (April 2022)
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Data Insights: European Union migrants living in Wales (January 2022)
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Data Insights: Geographical profiling verses individual risk profiling in reducing rates of low birth weight and improving school readiness (December 2021)
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If you are a researcher interested in working with admistrative data within this theme, or a policymaker interested in how ADR UK work can improve your insights and support your decision making in this area, please get in touch.