Christopher Fox, Ken Gibb, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Guillermo Rodriguez-Guzman
Evaluation of the Everyone In Social Investment Pilot
The Centre for Homelessness Impact a member of a consortium that is evaluating a three-year social investment pilot that aims to deliver over 200 move-on homes for people sleeping rough and those at risk of homelessness. The pilot is the result of a partnership between Big Society Capital, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), Bridges Fund Management, Resonance, and Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC). The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University is leading this evaluation and working in partnership with the Centre for Homelessness Impact, the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, the Institute of Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE), People’s Voice Media and the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation at the University of Southern California. The is to understand the role of social investment in supporting people who have experienced, or are at risk of experiencing rough sleeping and homelessness. We are starting with a four-month feasibility study, followed by a three-year evaluation to assess the effectiveness of this pilot. During the feasibility study, we are assessing different impact evaluation designs and assessing the size of the social investment market for rough sleeping or homelessness accommodation. Some elements of the main study are dependent on the outcome of the feasibility study, but key elements will include a process evaluation, an impact evaluation, and an economic evaluation. During the evaluation we will train and support some of the people who access the accommodation to tell their stories and these stories will form an important strand of the impact evaluation.
Interim findings from the evaluation will be fed into the pilot programme and inform its ongoing development. We will also disseminate key findings to the wider sector.
The Everyone In pilot will fund homes across England with a particular focus in London, Greater Manchester and in Teesside, with £15 million of government funding matched by £15 million of social investment funding from Big Society Capital
The evaluation seeks to understand the role of social investment in supporting people who have experienced or at risk of homelessness, assessing the differences between social and government capital
The Everyone In pilot started in 2021, the four-month feasibility study began in March 2022, and the three-year evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the pilot will begin in summer 2022
The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) at Manchester Metropolitan University
People’s Voice Media
Institute of Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE)
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