The Housing Vision Team

Richard’s specialisms include housing market and neighbourhood sustainability assessment and identifying the housing mix and affordability options arising from housing and regeneration schemes. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in Housing at De Montfort University and has active links with researchers throughout Europe. He is joint co-ordinator of the European Network for Housing Research Working Group on Housing Market Dynamics and was made a Fellow of the RSA in 2010 for his work in comparative housing. He has extensive Board membership experience, from early involvement with Castle Vale Community Housing Association to over 10 years as Chair of Housing Services and Development Committees at Mercian Housing Association, Birmingham.

Greg has 30 years’ professional experience in local government, working in metropolitan, urban and rural areas, including in Birmingham where he was the lead officer on demographic intelligence and research providing quantitative evidence for policy making.

Greg has contributed to national working groups on methodological developments in demography for the Office for National Statistics and Communities and Local Government and is a Member of the Council of the British Society for Population Studies.

Prior to establishing herself as a consultant, Sheila worked for the London Housing Unit for four years as a senior policy officer, specialising in housing capital finance. She was a Senior Lecturer in Housing for five years at the University of Westminster and before that, worked as a Policy Officer for the (then) National Federation of Housing Associations. She also has five years’ experience managing housing co-operatives and has been Chair of Housing in an inner London borough.

Within Housing Vision, Sheila has specialised in summarising the strategic and policy context for housing market assessment, together with researching the views of property agents in the local housing market. She has also run focus groups and carried out consumer interviews on a variety of topics.