The guide discusses the arguments for, and rationale behind, mixed income communities. It explores good practice in assembling and delivering a strategy - or vision - for a sustainable mixed income community and looks particularly at effective ways of delivering partnership and participation throughout the process.

The guide also considers the main challenges to be addressed if genuinely mixed communities are to become the norm.

The guide was developed in response to the emphasis in government policy on the need to create mixed income communities that successfully integrate different housing types, sizes and tenures in areas with good links to the surrounding urban fabric, services, facilities and jobs. The research coincided with the publication of a series of reports on aspects of mixed income and tenure, also commissioned by JRF.

The guide is based on detailed research from published sources and a series of specially commissioned case studies. Nine case studies were selected from a variety of locations in England and Scotland. Each was researched through interviews with officers of the key agencies involved and residents.

Whilst there are many similar policy, financial, design and management considerations that need to be addressed in creating and sustaining mixed income communities, very different market conditions, housing needs and factors relating to scale and location will affect the approach that should be adopted in individual cases.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
publications@jrf.org.uk

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Nick Bailey, Anna Haworth, Tony Manzi, Primali Paranagamage and Marion Roberts

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Urban Policy > Housing > Housing policy

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