social housing: vision 2020
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De Montfort University Department of Politics and Public Policy. SOCIAL HOUSING: VISION 2020. Dr Tim Brown Independent Consultant: HPPR Senior Research Associate: Housing & Local Government: DMU [email protected] 16 October 2014. Three Key Messages. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
SOCIAL HOUSING: VISION 2020
Dr Tim Brown
Independent Consultant: HPPR
Senior Research Associate: Housing & Local Government: DMU
[email protected] 16 October 2014
De Montfort University
Department of Politics and Public Policy
Three Key Messages
• Alluring but Misleading to Focus on New Legislation, Major Developments, the Election(s) etc
• Existing Stock and Households
• ‘Self Help’
Definitions
• Social Housing– Allocated According to Need Rather Than
Ability to Pay – Less than Market Rent
• Need!
Alluring but Misleading!
• Five Years+ for New Legislation to Make a Difference on the Ground
• Major Development Sites Take Five Years+ to be Built Out
• No National Political Consensus on (Social) Housing Development
National Governments and the Election(s)
• Low Political Priority for (Social) Housing e.g. – Health – Adult Social Care – Children’s Services – ‘Making the Case for Housing’?
• Tackling the Budget Deficit – Kerslake and 2015-2020
• Devolution • Economy
No Knight in Shining Armour Coming to the
Rescue of Social Housing!
So…Help Ourselves and Focus on Stock
and Households
Existing Stock and Households
• Why its Important (2012/13) e.g.– New Affordable Housing Completions: 30,000
– Social Housing Lettings: 288,000– Homeless Households in Temporary Accommodation:
53,000 – Decent Homes Standard: 580,000 Social Housing Units Fail
This Modest Standard – Overcrowding (2011 Census): 537,000 Black & Ethnic
Minority Households in England & Wales Live in Over-Crowded Households
– 260,000 Long Term Empty Homes
What are the Benefits?
• Quick Wins
• Utilising Hidden Capacity and Underused Assets
• Less Capital Expenditure
• Tackling Related Issues e.g. Neighbourhood Blight
What Might It Involve?
• Nothing Necessarily New…But Comprehensive and Co-ordinated Approach
• Targeted for Maximum Impact – Sector and/or Segment
• Not Reliant on New Legislation and Regulation
• Meet Local Requirements
Nothing New…But Co-ordinated
• Supply e.g. – Long term social housing voids – Difficult to let sheltered housing – Private sector leasing – Buying existing properties
• Need e.g. – Households in temporary accommodation
– Key workers • Advice and Information on e.g.
– Mutual exchange and mobility schemes
– Incentives to move for under-occupying older people
New and Co-ordinated e.g.
• Working with Communities e.g. community contracts, mutualism / co-operatives, co-production etc
• Utilise, if relevant, Governments’ Disease of ‘Initiativitis’
• One-stop Hub for Services
Summary
• Help Ourselves: ‘Localism’ and ‘Devolution’ in Action
• Comprehensive and Co-ordinated Local Approach on Existing (Social) Housing Stock and Households
Discussions and Questions
Dr Tim Brown