Race and Housing Database: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive

Title: Race and Housing Database: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive

Description: The collection was started in 2000, but includes material which predates this, although it is largely post 1980s. The collection is contained in a separate section in the Archive and is suitable for academics and practitioners working in the housing field. It is largely made up of reports focusing on the UK (around 350). The reports in the main cover: Black and Minority Ethnic housing/social care needs; equal opportunities in the public/private housing sectors (including good practice guides produced by for example the CRE, National Housing Federation and Housing Corporation); housing related initiatives aimed at Black and Minority Ethnic communities; and patterns of Settlement.

Strengths:

Size: c.350 reports

Catalogue: MS Access database

Catalogue URL:

Main URL: http://www.racearchive.org.uk/

Access: The Archive is open access and reference only. Themed boxes of material have, however, been produced for loan to schools and community groups.
Opening hours = Monday - Friday: 9.30am – 4.30pm; and Tuesday evenings: 6pm – 8pm

Acquisition dates: 1980 -

Note:

Interest: Asian, Black

Complete: Complete

Subjects

Racial discrimination

Housing

Ethnic groups

Equal opportunity

Personal/Corporate names

National Housing Federation and Housing Corporation

Commission for Racial Equality

Places

Manchester, United Kingdom