SNG carries out a variety of housing-based research - delivered in-house or in partnership with others - which helps us to inform our business decisions, share best practice across the social housing sector and contribute to the debate on local and national policy.
We also respond to government and sector consultations, directly or as a member of various groups.
In addition, as a leading housing association, we are keen to innovate and drive change, so our research includes new approaches to gathering better insight and data to improve our services and support to the benefit of our customers and communities.
As part of our recent 50th anniversary celebrations, we also published SNG@50 - a collection of essays from a wide range of contributors on the state of social housing now, what we can learn from our past and hope to see in the future.
Resident of the Future report
Our Resident of the Future report focuses on how our customer base will evolve and change over the next 10 years. The research was carried out following a recommendation from the Housing Ombudsman in their Relationship of Equals spotlight report. Here, they called for landlords to undertake a forecast so that they can create long-term plans on how to better approach resident vulnerabilities.
Resident of the Future report [pdf, 5.33MB] 
G15 research
We are part of the G15 group of London's largest housing associations. You can find copies of the latest G15 research reports on its website .
CASE research
We are also a member of the the Consortium of Associations in the South East (CASE) - a research group of 12 housing associations with homes across the South East of England. The CASE website holds the latest research reports by the Consortium .
Retrofit for the future: tenant attitudes to decarbonising social housing
We are committed to decarbonising our housing stock and achieving net zero carbon by 2050. This will involve a significant programme of investment, retrofit and regeneration, which will inevitably involve upheaval for some of our customers.
Prior to the Sovereign and Network Homes merger, Sovereign carried out qualitative research to examine customers’ views on the environment and climate change, and how these might influence how they engage with our decarbonisation strategy.
Retrofit for the future: tenant attitudes to decarbonising social housing
Visit our Greener future page to find out about the ambitious retrofit programme we’ve developed since this research was carried out, working with our expert partners to improve the fabric of our existing homes and installing the best energy-efficient heating.