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The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has published the English Housing Survey for 2020-2021, which is partly carried out by BRE.
This year’s data reflects the impact of the pandemic, with households reporting a decline in wellbeing and an increase in loneliness.
The challenges of the pandemic and social distancing rules in place in March 2020 meant that the survey had to be adapted, so that the data could still be collected. The English Housing Survey usually consists of a face-to-face interview with around 13,300 households followed by a physical survey of around 6,200 dwellings and has been carried out since 1967. Since 2011, the survey has been carried out by a consortium of BRE, NatCen, and CA Design Services.
Instead of entering homes in person, we conducted telephone interviews and an external survey of the home, collected supplementary information from households on the doorstep and used administrative data such as EPCs, Google Maps and Rightmove. Data was also extrapolated from previous surveys to derive some quality indicators such as Decent Homes and serious dampness.
Such a major change in the approach to data collection without thorough testing to examine the impact on the survey would not normally be made, but the pandemic required us to innovate to keep the survey going. This means that is unclear to what extent changes observed in 2020-21 are the result of the change to the methodology, or real change (for example, as a result of coronavirus and a change in people’s housing circumstances). However, it is not possible to differentiate mode affect from real change, and it will take several years to see whether the changes observed in 2020-21 are sustained over the longer term.
The main findings of the report are:
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