Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (UK)

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What are the key policy levers needed to ensure the most deprived communities can share in the benefits and opportunities from growth?

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What is the most constructive way to address the issue of empty homes – particularly long-term vacants?

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What are the capability and capacity gaps (both in delivering high quality new housing and remedying issues in existing stock) facing the construction workforce in the UK and what impact do those gaps have on housing quality and safety?

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What are the long-term impacts of housing quality on social cohesion, health, educational attainment, child poverty, life chances, wellbeing and other outcomes? What are our best quantified and monetised estimates of these relationships?

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What role can housing policies play in helping to alleviate child poverty and longer-term life outcomes?

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What are the most cost-effective measures for moving households out of temporary accommodation – and keeping them out?

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What further evidence is available on locally driven initiatives to combat homelessness that has positive outcomes for service users?

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How can we further quantify the impacts of planned changes to employment law on raising living standards across the UK, as measured by real household disposable income?

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What is the regional picture on jobs with higher pay, better working conditions and security?

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Why do otherwise similar areas experience different health, education and other outcomes?

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How can different public services, delivered by different scales of devolution and methodologies, be compared to learn best practices and improve efficiency?

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What are the long-term impacts/implications of community-based sponsorship?

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Are there any local examples of effective strategies to help individuals settle, which generate better outcomes for people?

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What are the best ways in which the use of AI could speed up the planning system, reduce costs for local government and improve the delivery of public services?

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How best is land value captured to pay for social housing and infrastructure? What are the limits to the capture of land value, and why?

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Why has construction sector productivity declined in the UK and in other countries in the recent years? Are there examples of policies across the world which have successfully addressed this?

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What are the best examples of how to incentivise local residents to support new housing and infrastructure in their local areas?

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What are the most cost-effective ways of making new homes more energy-efficient?