Find the original
Use the publishing agency or organization rather than a screenshot of someone else’s summary. Record the exact table or measure you used.
Research & evidence
A reading room for the work ahead.
Not just more information. Sources you can trace, definitions you can understand and questions you can carry into action.
Begin with a question · Housing
What does affordability actually measure?
Understand household housing problems, cost burden and severe cost burden.
Read the CHAS source guideThe collection
147 ways into the evidence.
A practical source habit
Read carefully. Use confidently.
Compare like with like
Check the population, geography, time period, units and uncertainty. A national result is not automatically a local estimate.
Keep the limitation attached
Name what the source cannot establish. A useful advocacy argument does not need to pretend a dataset answers every question.
Turn a source into a considered ask.
The brief builder helps organize your context, evidence and request. It does not verify claims or send a message for you.