The 2025 ECRP

TThe 2025 competition was won by Maurice Lange, an analyst with Centre for Cities with his paper "The past, present and future of public housebuilding in England ".

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We are grateful to our sponsors, Altair, Aster, L&Q and Inside Housing. The 2025 competition was won by Maurice Lange, an analyst with Centre for Cities with his paper "The past, present and future of public housebuilding in England".  The runner-up was Eve Blezard, Policy Lead at the Chartered Institute of Housing for her paper "Measuring What Matters: Tackling Structural Stigma in Social Housing​​​​​​ "

Winner

The past, present and future of public housebuilding in England

Maurice Lange

This paper presents new analysis of the geography of public (social and other ‘affordable’ tenure) housebuilding in England, since 1945.

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Runner Up

Measuring What Matters: Tackling Structural Stigma in Social Housing​​​​​​

Eve Blezard

This paper examines stigma in social housing, drawing on findings from residents' lived experiences of social housing in relation to policy evaluation.

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