Housing for Protection
Focuses on how housing systems shape protection outcomes
Building housing systems that enable protection to work credibly at scale
Across asylum accommodation, temporary housing, and safe routes, the UK relies heavily on emergency responses. Public spending often flows into short-term arrangements, while durable housing pathways remain fragmented and difficult to scale.
Housing for Protection works on the system architecture behind these outcomes: commissioning, capital strategy, governance design, and cross-sector alignment between central government, local authorities, and civil society.
The work sits upstream of services and delivery, focusing on the structural conditions that shape housing pathways. It produces system analysis, feasibility studies, and practical design proposals aimed at enabling scalable housing solutions.
Housing for Protection brings together expertise from housing, government, and civil society to explore practical pathways for scaling durable housing solutions.
Current work
Across different protection pathways, Housing for Protection focuses on the institutional, financial and housing system conditions required for durable models to scale beyond pilot activity.
Asylum Accommodation Transition
Developing evidence, partnerships and implementation pathways to support future asylum accommodation reform.
Housing Infrastructure for Safe Routes
Supporting the development of housing pathways and system architecture for new safe routes, including policy design, housing standards and new routes into housing supply.
Global Inquiry
Exploring how housing and protection systems work in different contexts, and what international learning can usefully inform policy, system design and implementation in the UK.
Protection Housing Systems
Strengthening the housing foundations that underpin protection pathways, from arrival through to longer-term settlement and integration.
Upcoming Events
Housing for Protection brings together expertise from housing, government, and civil society to explore practical pathways for scaling durable housing solutions.
Get in touch
We welcome conversations with policymakers, housing providers, funders, researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening housing pathways for protection.