Inside Housing has published the results of its 2021 diversity survey. 138 housing associations were approached to provide data but only 101 responded.
Key findings of the survey include:
- of the 101 organisations which responded, 62 have all-white executive teams with another four provided no data on the ethnicity of their executive teams
- 25 of those organisations have all-white boards with 87.4% of all board members being white
- only 41% of board members and 42% of executive team members are female
- just 2.6% of board members and 5.2% of executive team members identify as lesbian or gay
- there are no trans people at board or executive level and
- approximately 5% of board and executive team members are disabled.