Communities Scotland: research publications

View reports and Precis in our archive:

• The impact of second and holiday homes on rural communities in Scotland
• Housing market areas in Scotland:definition and review
• An overview of the social inclusion partnership programme
• A good practice framework for tenant participation in Scotland
• The effects of social housing on health and wellbeing - initial findings from the SHARP study
• The Social Economy: a literature review
• Coherent Diversity - A Literature Review: interdisciplinary training for community regeneration and social inclusion in Scotland
• Evaluation of Social Inclusion Partnerships (SIPs)
• Evaluation of the Scottish Community Action Research Fund (SCARF)
• Community regeneration and neighbourhood renewal: a review of the evidence
• Report: The effects of social housing on health and wellbeing - initial findings from the SHARP study
• Evaluation of Newmilns Townscape Heritage Initiative
• Housing and support needs of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Scotland
• Precis: Evaluation of the implementation of Regeneration Outcome Agreements
• Evaluation of the impact of Scottish Community Action Research Fund (SCARF) projects
• Scottish social landlords' progress on tenant participation
• Options for mixed tenure and RSL property in Edinburgh's pre-1919 tenements
• Report: Interim Evaluation of the Community Voices Network
• Routes into employment for homeless people
• Report: An overview of the social inclusion partnership programme
• Report: A study of migrant workers in Grampian
• Shetland Housing Market Study
• Evaluation of Ownership Options in Scotland
• Disrepair in the private rented sector in Scotland: a review of policy options in reserved areas
• An assessment of the housing needs and aspirations of Gypsies/Travellers in Tayside
• Managing housing voids: a review of good practice advice with particular reference to tackling low demand
• Affordable Housing and the Labour Market in Scotland
• Community regeneration and neighbourhood renewal: a review of the evidence
• Evaluation of the effective engagement of communities in regeneration - Final baseline report
• Models of intermediate accommodation
• Preventing Homelessness: the role of housing management
• Scotland's Construction Industry: skills needs and access to opportunity
• Precis: Affordability and migration within the Ayrshire housing system
• The housing needs and aspirations of black and minority ethnic communities in Angus and Dundee
• Implementing Community Planning: building for the future of local governance
• Performance management in local authority housing services: an empirical view
• Issues in developing urban housing in Edinburgh to meet the needs of a range of households
• Governing registered social landlords
• Providing homelessness support services in rural and remote rural areas: exploring models for providing more effective local support
• Learning lessons from thematic social inclusion partnerships (SIPs)
• Developing the social economy: critical review of the literature
• Report: Review of the Wester Hailes Community Banking Agreement
• Report: Evaluation of the implementation of Regeneration Outcome Agreements
• 01 An Evaluation of Existing Very Sheltered Housing
• An evaluation of the Closure of the Great Eastern Hostel
• Tackling homelessness in East Ayrshire
• Precis: Restricted occupancy conditions in National Parks
• Precis: Innovative Dutch Style Housing in Ballater
• Precis: A study of migrant workers in Grampian
• Exploring the housing needs of minority ethnic communities in Forth Valley
• Precis: A longitudinal evaluation of the Drumchapel Supported Youth housing project
• Testing the Property Sale Questionnaire in the home buying and selling process
• Sharing the benefits of growth: linking opportunity and need in North East Scotland
• Review of availability and use of evidence in Regeneration Outcome Agreements
• Evaluation of the Wider Role Funding Programme
• Rethinking Construction in the Scottish Housebuilding Industry
• Support Infrastructure for the Social Economy
• Mapping Potential Supply for Housing in Scotland
• Establishing a Disabled Persons' Housing Service in Inverclyde
• Delivering choice in housing and support for people with particular needs: perceptions and realities
• Scotland's Home of Tomorrow - evaluation of design outcomes
• The risks and rewards of developing common housing registers: lessons from the modernising government fund (MGF) demonstration projects
• Understanding the dynamics of low demand in owner occupation in East Ayrshire and North Lanarkshire
• Registered social landlords: information mapping
• Skills and competencies for community regeneration: needs analysis and framework
• Low demand for owner occupation in Scotland
• Collection and provision of private rented sector information
• Evaluation of the Rural Home Ownership Grant Mechanism
• Improving sound insulation in dwellings
• Services for Gypsies/Travellers - a follow up study 2005/06
• An evaluation of earth masonry in affordable housing
• Rethinking Construction in the Scottish Housebuilding Industry Report
• Support Infrastructure for the Social Economy Report
• Report: Delivering choice in housing and support for people with particular needs: perceptions and realities
• Report: Routes into employment for homeless people
• Report: The effects of mortgage indemnity insurance on the Mortgage to Rent scheme
• Report: Coherent Diversity: towards a picture of interdisciplinary training for community regeneration and social inclusion in Scotland
• Report: Implementing Community Planning: building for the future of local governance
• Report: Evaluation of Kincardine O'Neil innovative rural housing design project: Canmore Place
• Report: Low demand for owner occupation in Scotland
• Report: Report: Housing and support needs of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Scotland
• Developing good practice for effective community engagement and housing needs assessment for minority ethnic communities Report
• Report: Evaluation of the Scottish Community Action Research Fund (SCARF)
• Report: Providing homelessness support services in rural and remote rural areas: exploring models for providing more effective local support
• Report: Interim evaluation of the Open Market Homestake Pilot
• Approaches to evaluation in community regeneration
• Report: Learning lessons from thematic social inclusion partnerships (SIPs)
• Evaluation of the impact of Scottish Community Action Research Fund (SCARF) projects - Report
• Interim evaluation of Shelter Family Project
• Housing black and minority ethnic communities in West Dunbartonshire
• Assessing the long-run impact of the Right to Buy
• Interim Evaluation of the Community Voices Network
• Interim evaluation of the Open Market Homestake Pilot
• Review of employability in Regeneration Outcome Agreements
• Understanding the housing needs of black and minority ethnic communities in East Renfrewshire
• The Support Needs of Social Economy Organisations
• Measuring the Impact of RSL Employment Initiatives: Using the Wider Role Framework
• East Dunbartonshire Community Care Housing Needs Study
• Disrepair in owner occupation in Scotland: a review of policy options in reserved areas
• Developing a transition framework for social inclusion partnerships: interim programme review
• Analysis of the baseline study of tenant participation
• Review of the Wester Hailes Community Banking Agreement
• Novel solar heating and ventilation systems for tenement flats
• The effects of mortgage indemnity insurance on the Mortgage to Rent scheme
• Coherent Diversity: towards a picture of interdisciplinary training for community regeneration and social inclusion in Scotland
• Social economy and public sector procurement in Renfrewshire
• The "Horizon Gap": encouraging entrepreneurship in the social economy in Dunbartonshire
• Minority ethnic homelessness in Glasgow: experiences of service users
• Review of the Mortgage to Rent scheme
• Mind the gap: evaluation of owner occupation for disabled people in Scotland
• Tenants talking to tenants
• A feasibility study into the application of a community banking initiative model for housing association tenants in the north and east of Scotland
• Improving understanding of the housing circumstances of minority ethnic communities in Aberdeen City
• Evaluation of Kincardine O'Neil innovative rural housing design project: Canmore Place
• Review of the effectiveness and impact of transferring Scottish Homes houses into community ownership
• Achieving better understanding of the private rented sector in North Lanarkshire
• Achieving better understanding of the private rented sector in East Dunbartonshire
• Improving understanding of housing circumstances of minority ethnic in Aberdeenshire and Moray communities
• A rich network: involving the voluntary sector in the planning of community learning and development
• 2001-2004 Eviction by RSL and local authority landlords in Scotland
• Assessing the need to provide business support to Post Offices in deprived urban and rural areas
• Developing good practice for effective community engagement and housing needs assessment for minority ethnic communities
• Network Support Fund - Action Research Evaluation
• The Tayside migrant labour population: scale, impacts and experiences
• Engaging with tenants nationally - a consultation study
• Perceptions of the Social Economy
• Building a better deal: an evaluation of new methods
• A legislation and literature review of health and safety for social landlords
• Surveyors in regeneration
• Evaluation of Devanha Bulk Procurement Initiative
• Assessing the housing needs of minority ethnic communities in North and South Lanarkshire
• The potential impact of the Single Survey on the property industry
• An overview of the social inclusion partnership programme
• The Social Economy: a literature review Report
• The Support Needs of Social Economy Organisations Report
• Health and Regeneration: Shared premises Report
• East Dunbartonshire Community Care Housing Needs Study
• Report on the findings from the Housing Improvement Task Force - equalities proofing focus groups
• Report: Developing a transition framework for social inclusion partnerships: interim programme review
• Report: Good Practice in Positive Action
• Report: Analysis of the baseline study of tenant participation
• Report: Housing market areas in Scotland:definition and review
• REport: Options for mixed tenure and RSL property in Edinburgh's pre-1919 tenements
• Report: Coherent Diversity - A Literature Review: interdisciplinary training for community regeneration and social inclusion in Scotland
• Report: The risks and rewards of developing common housing registers: lessons from the modernising government fund (MGF) demonstration projects
• An assessment of the housing needs and aspirations of Gypsies/Travellers in Tayside
• Report: Minority ethnic homelessness in Glasgow: experiences of service users
• Report: Review of the Mortgage to Rent scheme
• Report: Mind the gap: evaluation of owner occupation for disabled people in Scotland
• Report:Evaluation of Newmilns Townscape Heritage Initiative
• Report: Registered social landlords: information mapping
• Report: Assessing the need to provide business support to Post Offices in deprived urban and rural areas
• Report: Skills and competencies for community regeneration: needs analysis and framework
• Report: A good practice framework for tenant participation in Scotland
• A feasibility study into the application of a community banking initiative model for housing association tenants in the north and east of Scotland
• Report: Achieving better understanding of the private rented sector in East Dunbartonshire
• Report: Achieving better understanding of the private rented sector in North Lanarkshire
• Report: Review of the effectiveness and impact of transferring Scottish Homes houses into community ownership
• Report: 2001-2004 Eviction by RSL and local authority landlords in Scotland
• Report: Collection and provision of private rented sector information
• Report: Governing registered social landlords
• Report: The impact of second and holiday homes on rural communities in Scotland
• Report: Evaluation of the Rural Home Ownership Grant Mechanism
• Report: Network Support Fund - Action Research Evaluation
• Report: Surveyors in regeneration
• Perceptions of the Social Economy
• Report: Evaluation of Devanha Bulk Procurement Initiative
• Report: The Tayside migrant labour population: scale, impacts and experiences
• Report: Engaging with tenants nationally - a consultation study
• Report:A legislation and literature review of health and safety for social landlords
• Report: Registered social landlords and the social economy
• Report: Developing the social economy: critical review of the literature
• Report: Restricted occupancy conditions in National Parks
• Equalities in Practice Follow Up Study
• Report: Innovative Dutch Style Housing in Ballater
• Report:The potential impact of the Single Survey on the property industry
• Report: Interim evaluation of the Open Market Homestake Pilot
• Report: A longitudinal evaluation of the Drumchapel Supported Youth housing project
• Report: Testing the Property Sale Questionnaire in the home buying and selling process
• Sharing the benefits of growth: linking opportunity and need in North East Scotland Report
• Report: Review of employability in Regeneration Outcome Agreements
• Review of availability and use of evidence in Regeneration Outcome Agreements - Report
• Evaluation of the Wider Role Funding Programme Report
• Scottish social landlords' progress on tenant participation (Report)
• Planning for affordable housing in the Cairngorms National Park
• Developing good practice for effective community engagement and housing needs assessment for minority ethnic communities Guidance
• Tackling Multiple Deprivation in Communities: Considering the Evidence