Poor Data Analysis Harms Equality Work

Housing organisations are not properly monitoring the ethnicity of tenants and failing to stamp out discrimination, a study has found. The Race Equality Foundation has published a paper looking at how local authorities and housing associations collect and analyse data. The report, Monitoring the ethnicity of housing service users: forty years of progress?, concludes: ‘Although ethnic record keeping of housing services has been recommended for forty years, it would appear that true monitoring (rather than mere record keeping) is in decline. Find the report on the Foundation’s website by clicking on their logo below.