Role
Principal Officer, Housing Market Strategic Policy and Research
From Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
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From Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
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Responsibility for monitoring and reporting on housing market activity, developing strategic housing policy, and providing economic research and evaluation support to the department’s housing business units. This unit deals with strategic policy matters including: long-term housing delivery targets; the department’s Housing Need and Demand Assessment framework; strategic residential investment; and the right to housing. The unit complements this work with a joint research programme with the ESRI, a housing research forum with relevant public sector bodies, and bespoke economic research to support the department’s operational policy development. It also monitors housing market activity, including housing delivery, pricing and affordability, and household and non-household purchaser activity, and provides housing market related reporting, briefing and insights to the department’s business units and other external stakeholders.