Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)

Year of publication: 2005

This report looks into successive governments aspirations to achieve a sustainable mix of tenures and incomes. It addresses questions of why integration has been so difficult to achieve in practice and draws conclusions for future policy.

Specifically, the report looks at patterns of segregation and how they have changed over the last 20 years; the effectiveness of a range of policies, identifying those that are most likely to work & other factors that are key to improving integration.

Key findings include:

• patterns of segregation in England have changed little over the past 20 years or more
• ‘one-size-fits-all’ policies do not work.
• segregation and integration depend particularly on where young, high-income households choose to move to
• it is particularly difficult to design policies to attract back older households to cities in order to promote integration, because people tend to move home significantly less as they get older

Content type: Equality

Tags: Report

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