Policy

RealWorth's James McGowan and Erik Bichard recently hosted a social value walking tour of Liverpool's northern docklands area. Joined by Officers from Liverpool City Council and Make CIC, we discussed how regeneration can create social value for existing and future residents.

Labour is committed to building 370,000 new homes per year in England. RealWorth's Erik Bichard discusses what this means for social value in the built environment.

To conduct its social value analysis, RealWorth teamed up with the charity Big Help Project to survey people with experience of fuel poverty and establish the social value of escaping fuel poverty. In the report, the authors discuss how fuel poverty impacts lives and what measures the built environment sector can put in place to reduce the likelihood of fuel poverty.

While billionaire’s wealth fell by $500 billion from 2022 to 2023, Forbes estimates that there are still 2,640 people in the world with ten-figure fortunes with a combined wealth of $12.2 trillion. What else could that money be used for?

Following the finding that over a third of households in England and Wales are rented, James McGowan explores potential solutions to the UK's home ownership crisis.

For some time those that assess the impacts of new public policy have not considered how wellbeing metrics support a better policy formation. Could this be wellbeing's moment to create change?

Building More Houses Won’t Solve Much Unless it Increases the Social and Environmental Value of Occupants’ Lives.

Opening Speech by Prof. Erik Bichard on behalf of RealWorth at the Improving Models for Valuing Social Impact in Urban Development event in Malmö (Sweden) on October 5th 2016 organised by the Urban Innovation Lab