Islington Park Street Community: a model for alternative housing in London

Melissa Fernández profiles Islington Park Street Community (IPS), a long-established mixedneeds housing that provides a mutually supportive permanent home for people with mixed backgrounds, needs and abilities. Fernández believes IPS provides a model that could help those facing mental of physical challenges to sustain healthy independent living via mutual support. Housing associations should be educated in this approach. Moreover, IPS could be seen as a possible model for the effective and low cost reuse of obsolete owned sheltered housing and care homes.

The full report can be downloaded here.

Home advantage: Housing the young employed in London

LSE London conducted a research project for Sutton Trust on the effects of the housing supply shortage and its impact on young workers. One of the findings is that house prices are driving young graduates and workers away from London.

The research was commissioned by Sutton Trust.

The full report can be accessed here.

How is London Being Transformed by Migration?

With the many shifts that have taken place over the past few years in the UK migration regime, the new net migration figures and the detail now about how and where migrants are living in London made available through the 2011 Census, this conference provided a timely opportunity to bring together current knowledge and research on the impact of migration

London’s Household Projections and their Implications for Planning: a roundtable discussion

Following a seminar held on London’s household projections in July 2013, this smaller round-table brought together LSE London’s team with GLA’s leading demography, housing and planning experts to discuss London demographics and housing requirements, as well as the relationships between population