HOUSING

Building Better Lives Case Studies (28th September 2009)
The case studies to the Better Lives report, published on 9th September 2009 by the Audit Commission, are now available to download
Case Studies

Housing in England 2007-2008 (29th September 2009)
This is the last report published under the Survey of English Housing. The survey was merged with the English House Condition Survey into the English Housing Survey in 2008. Headline findings from the EHS will be published early 2010.
Report

Fifteen years of the Survey of English Housing: 1993-1994 to 2007-08 (29th September 2009)
A short report presenting some initial outputs from the SEH15 dataset, a new dataset which combines key household level data from each of the fifteen annual SEH datasets from 1993-94 to 2007-08. Its purpose is to bring the dataset to the attention of the research community and to highlight the type of analysis that can be undertaken.
Report

English House Condition Survey - 2007 Annual Report (29th September 2009)
The report presents detailed findings from the 2007 survey on the housing conditions and energy performance of the stock. The report included the following highlights:

• The energy efficiency of the housing stock has steadily improved from 42 SAP points in 1996 to 50 in 2007.
• In 2007, 41 per cent of homes were in the more efficient Energy Efficient Rating Bands A-D compared with only 19 per cent of homes in 1996. The proportion of homes in the least energy efficient Bands F and G nearly halved over this period (from 36 per cent to 19 per cent).
• Social sector homes were more energy efficient with a SAP rating of 58 compared with 48 for the private sector and the rate of energy efficiency improvement since 1996 has been greater in the social sector.

Report