Welcome to the new website of Renting Evidence, a community of researchers, stakeholders and policymakers committed to improving the quality of evidence available on rental sectors. We seek to share knowledge across professional boundaries to support evidence-informed policy and practice. 

As COVID-19 has demonstrated, our housing is fundamental to our health and well-being. Renting has experienced significant changes over the past few years, with policies and regulations diverging across the UK. This change is unlikely to stop, with more planned policies across social, private and short-term sectors. One such is the Renters Reform Bill, where the Government has committed to scrapping Section 21 ‘no-fault’ eviction notices. High-quality research and evidence must underpin these reforms to support better policymaking and improve the lives of renters. 

We hope that Renting Evidence as a hub for knowledge-exchange will play a small part in facilitating access to research by policymakers. Our activities going forward will be underpinned by the following aims:

1. to share research and knowledge across professional, policy and academic groups
2. to promote best-practice in research on renting
3. to nurture opportunities for the development of connections between different groups
4. to facilitate opportunities for new research and evidence-informed policymaking and practice. 

Our future activities and developments

Over the coming year, we will be hosting a series of online workshops and seminars on new research and research methodologies. These will be announced soon and promoted through our mailing list first, so please sign up to get early access. We also have a series of blogs planned on new research findings and timely topics that we can’t wait to share with you. 

We are planning some exciting future developments for the website. One feature is a new Research Repository. Accessing and finding research, especially reports, is quite tricky and can prevent knowledge from being utilised in further research and policymaking. We hope to address this with our future repository by signposting researchers and policymakers to reports and analysis across a broad range of topics. We will announce more future developments in due course. 

Please sign up to our mailing list to keep informed of new blog posts, new research and events. And by doing so, you can also contribute to the Renting Evidence blog with your own latest research news and insights. 

If you would like to put on a workshop, webinar or contribute to our blog, please get in touch. 

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