Fordham Research

• Strategic Housing Market Assessments (SHMA)
• Housing Needs Assessments (HNA)
• Private Sector Stock Condition Surveys (PSSCS)
• Planning Services - Viability, Planning Gain & Inquiries
• Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessments (GTAA)
• Key Worker Housing
• Older Person Housing and Support
• Black and Minority Ethnic Housing and Support
• Migrant Worker Studies
• 2008 Conference - Viability and the Credit Crunch

Welcome

Introduction to Fordham Research

Fordham Research is a unique organisation. It has for some two decades been the only organisation dedicated to supporting the public sector in developing both the evidence base and the delivery of housing and planning products. These include:

• Complete evidence bases (using a combination of household surveys and other data)
• Support for affordable housing and housing market related policies
• Advice on planning gain and related infrastructure matters
• Advice on a range of specific topics such as surveys of Gypsies and Travellers and other groups

More recently, and through the development of Government policy to include all sectors of the market in housing and planning policy evolution, Fordham Research has begun to consult more with the private sector (housebuilders in particular) in order to prepare more effective evidence bases for policy. The particular contribution of the firm has been that, although a private sector body, it has carried out a good deal of basic research into its fields of work. These have included:

• Establishing the way in which housing need is assessed (via a 1975 monograph and the book 'Housing Need and the Need for Housing' (Ashgate 1998) written by Dr Richard Fordham and the other members of the staff). The approach developed in this work still forms the basis for Government policy in the area.
• Developing procedures which enable the housing market to be effectively modelled, so as to enable housing and planning policies to be related to a coherent evidence base

Fordham Research has about 20 staff, many of whom have years of experience with the firm and contain an unequalled range of expertise in the field. Please see the links to other pages to see what this means in practice.