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These websites provide a useful source of publications relating to housing. Please note, not all resources are directly connected to both housing and black and minority ethnic issues.

If there are any other sites you feel complement the issues covered by this website, please use the forum, or email the Foundation's Information Officer, Kat Nower.


24dash.com
24dash.com is Social Housing and Public Sector news website, combining national coverage from the Press Association with press releases from housing associations, local authorities, charities and other relevant organisations.


BRAP
BRAP work towards an inclusive and rights based approach to equality, promoting a learning culture in which develop a more informed and confident approach to equalities implementation.  Their site has a number of helpful resources, and toolkits to help promote equality in the workplace.


Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), The
The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) is one of the UK's leading academic research centres specialising in social and economic regeneration, housing and labour market analysis. 


Chartered Institute of Housing
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) is the professional body for people who work in housing. A collection of free downloads publications is available here.


Citizen's Advice Bureau
The Citizen's Advice Bureau website provides guidance and factsheets on aspects of housing, including some resources translated into community languages.


Contact a Family
Contact a Family is a national organisation representing disabled children and their families. It provides advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children, including publications in a number of different community languages, and interpreted service for its helpline.


Crisis
Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. The site has many useful resources relating to homelessness, although few specifically relating to black and minority ethnic homeless people.


data.gov.uk
A major new website which gives free access to government data in one place. The site contains more than 2500 sets of data from across government.  All of the data is non-personal and in a format that can be reused by any individual or business to create innovative new software tools, such as applications about house prices, local amenities and services, or access to local hospitals.


Department of Communities and Local Government Housing Surveys
This site gives access to the English House Condition Survey (EHCS), Survey of English Housing, and the combined English Housing Survey, published from 2008 onwards.  The surveys provide information on issues such as condition and energy efficiency of housing, characteristics of housing and attitudes to housing amongst households. 


Department of Communities and Local Government- Race Research and Statistics
The Communities and Local Government- Race Research and Statistics website provides access to a number of reports relating to race, including some touching on ethnicity and housing issues.


Department of Communities and Local Government-housing
The Communities and Local Government- Race Research and Statistics website provides access to a number of reports relating to housing issues, examining issues including affordable housing, homelessness and tackling anti-social behaviour.


Family Fund, The
The Family Fund provides grants to families caring for a severely disabled child in the UK.


FEANTSA
FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless) is an umbrella of not-for-profit organisations which participate in or contribute to the fight against homelessness in Europe. The site provides access to information, toolkits and resources on a cross-European basis.


Forced Migration Online
This site provides access to a large number of free resources and briefings dealing with the situation of refugees and forced migrants.