Over the past few years, the Housing Corporation has supported a large number of projects and initiatives under its Innovation and Good Practice (IGP) grants. Some of these address the issue of sustainability or sustainable development, or aspects within that broad heading. In this way a large number of useful products, systems, websites, networks, guides, collections of case studies and other reference material has been amassed. This gives anyone interested in developing sustainability within their housing association two problems - how to choose and where to start.


Routes to Sustainability offers a solution to these problems, it is a toolbox and searchable database that aims to:

•  Identify products that assist housing associations to move forward in one or more policy areas
•  Provide routes between products so that logical choices can be made when moving on from the current project
•  Allow people to start at the most appropriate point for their own situation
•  Allow people to choose the most appropriate style of tool for their organisation or community
•  Allow organisations to take a longer term view of what sustainable development means for them in terms of action