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Published in May by the by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation:
Housing investment and neighbourhood market change
By Glen Bramley, Chris Leishman, Noah Kofi Karley, James Morgan
and David Watkins
This study of neighbourhood housing markets in England in the
1990s and early 2000s describes and accounts for patterns of
change in housing market performance, with a particular focus on
the impact of new investment.
Summary: Housing investment and neighbourhood market change
Shaping or shadowing? Understanding and responding to housing market change
By Ian Cole
This study summarises evidence on recent changes in the English
housing market.
Summary: Understanding and responding to housing market change
Segregated neighbourhoods and mixed communities: a critical analysis
By Paul Cheshire
Analysis of why residential segregation arises and how it relates to the
distribution of incomes.
Poverty and disadvantage among prisoners' families
By Rose Smith, Roger Grimshaw, Renee Romeo and Martin Knapp
This study looks at the financial impact of imprisonment on
prisoners' families
Summary: Poverty and disadvantage among prisoners' families
Direct payment of Housing Benefit: what do claimants think?
By Annie Irvine, Peter A. Kemp and Katharine Nice
This study examines the two different Housing Benefit payment
methods and looks at claimants' understanding, attitudes and
experiences.
Summary: Paying Housing Benefit to claimants
East European immigration and community cohesion
By Eugenia Markova and Richard Black
This study profiles new Eastern European immigrants living in the London
Boroughs of Harrow and Hackney and the City of Brighton and Hove and
explores how their presence affects community cohesion.
Summary: East European immigration and community cohesion
Social cohesion in diverse communities
By Maria Hudson, Joan Phillips, Kathryn Ray and Helen Barnes
This study explores the relationships between new and established
communities in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in Moss Side in
Manchester and North Tottenham in London.
Summary: Social cohesion in diverse communities
Migrants' lives beyond the workplace: the experiences of Central and East
Europeans in the UK
By Sarah Spencer, Martin Ruhs, Bridget Anderson and Ben Rogaly
This study explores the experiences outside work of Central and East
European migrants and the impact of becoming EU citizens following
EU enlargement in 2004.
Summary: The experiences of Central and East European migrants in the UK
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