Opinion Research Services (ORS) was commissioned by St Edmundsbury Borough Council in 2005 to identify existing and future housing needs across the area in the context of overall housing market requirements.
The study was comprehensive in considering the different components of housing requirements and supply. In addition to households identified as currently being in housing need, the study identified the future housing requirements of established and newly forming households across the area together with inward migrants from within the UK and abroad. These gross housing requirements were offset against the likely supply of housing from within the existing stock to yield a net requirement for additional housing.
The outputs considered household affordability in terms of the ability to afford appropriate market housing, the ability to afford more than social rented housing without being able to afford appropriate market housing, and the inability to afford any more than the appropriate social rent. Therefore the requirements for market housing, intermediate housing and social housing were comprehensively covered.
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