Outputs: The outputs of foresight work are both tangible and intangible. Tangible
outputs would include the actual range of options generated by the work. Thus the
final report from this study will have a range of possible key housing scenarios
which can then be used by the wider housing community for information and
debate. Intangible outputs would include the changes in thinking engendered by the
whole process, especially the insights generated in the interpretation step and by
the creation of forward views in the prospection step. The intangible outputs from
this study are likely to be raised awareness of foresight analysis for the participants
and, hopefully, some new ways of thinking about housing issues. This may be the
more important form of output because of the potential to alter the very mechanism
of strategy or policy development itself, namely, the perceptions of the mind(s)
involved. At this point, foresight has done its real job: the generation of an expanded
perception of options available. This output now feeds into: