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Summary

This guide to good practice is the product of a research project undertaken by the London Research Centre (now the Greater London Authority) and Heriot-Watt University. The research looked at the strategies which social landlords can adopt to manage under-occupation in their stock and what works in assisting tenants to move to a smaller home if they want to.

The research shows that under-occupation is not necessarily a bad thing and in areas of low demand strategies to reduce under-occupation may be counter productive. Some level of under-occupation can be useful for reducing child densities and in some communities older tenants can provide a much needed sense of stability. The primary concern for authorities must always be to ask "are we making the very best use of our stock" and to answer that it is necessary to look at the problem in the round.

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