Latest CASE Reports

High Rise Hope

Katie Bates, Laura Lane, Anne Power

CASEreport 75. October 2012.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport75.pdf

Measuring Inequality: AutonomyThe degree of empowerment in decisions about one’s own life

Tania Burchardt, Martin Evans, Holly Holder

CASEreport 74. July 2012.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport74.pdf

CASE Annual Report 2011

CASEreport 73. May 2012.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport73.pdf

Final report of the Hills Independent Fuel Poverty Review: Getting the Measure of Fuel Poverty

John Hills

CASEreport 72. March 2012.
The review confirms that fuel poverty is a serious national problem and shows that it is set to rise rapidly. It affects people with low incomes and energy costs above typical levels. It proposes a new way of measuring the problem, focused both on the number of people affected and the severity of the problem they face. Using the proposed measure:Nearly 8 million people in England, within 2.7 million households, both had low incomes and faced high energy costs in 2009 (the most recent year with available data). These households faced costs to keep warm that added up to £1.1 billion more than middle or higher income people with typical costs.The review’s central projection is that this “fuel poverty gap” – already three-quarters higher than in 2003 – will rise by a further half, to £1.7 billion by 2016.This means fuel poor households will face costs nearly £600 a year higher on average than better-off households with typical costs.The report also argues that:Fuel poverty exacerbates other hardship faced by those on low incomes, has serious health effects (including contributing to extra deaths every winter), and acts as a block to efforts to cut carbon emissions.The current official way of measuring it, based on whether a household would need to spend more than 10 per cent of its income on energy, is flawed, giving a misleading impression of trends, excluding some affected by the problem at some times and including people with high incomes at others.Interventions targeted on the core of the problem – especially those that improve the energy efficiency of homes lived in by people with low incomes – can make a substantial difference, but the impact of those planned to be in place by 2016 is only to reduce the problem by a tenth.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport72.pdf

Lille City Report

Celine Kuklowsky, Bert Provan

CASEreport 71. November 2011.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport71.pdf

Report to Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture on progress in France’s former industrial cities

Celine Kuklowsky, Bert Provan

CASEreport 70. October 2011.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport70.pdf

Fuel Poverty: The problem and its measurement. Interim Report of the Fuel Poverty Review

John Hills

CASEreport 69. October 2011.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport69_Executive_Summary.pdf

CASE Annual Report 2010

CASEreport 68. September 2011.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport68.pdf

Building the Big Society

Ruth Lupton, Anne Power, Liz Richardson, Rebecca Tunstall

CASEreport 67. June 2011.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport67.pdf

Obstacles and Opportunities:Today’s children, tomorrow’s families

Anne Power, Nicola Serle, Helen Willmot

CASEreport 66. March 2011.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport66.pdf

Place Typologies and their Policy Applications

Alex Fenton, Rich Harris, Ruth Lupton, Rebecca Tunstall

CASEreport 65. February 2011.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport65.pdf

Teenage Housing Tenure and Neighbourhoods and the Links with Adult Outcomes:Evidence from the 1970 Cohort Study

Andrew Jenkins, Dylan Kneale, Ruth Lupton, Rebecca Tunstall

CASEreport 64. January 2011.

Full article: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport64.pdf