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Housing with Care and Support

Housing with Care and Support. Ron Sims Assistant Director Directorate of Adult, Community and Housing Services Dudley MBC. Introduction. Strategic Housing Function Need to respond to demographic changes: Growing number of older people Many older people are mortgage free home owners

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Housing with Care and Support

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  1. Housing with Care and Support Ron Sims Assistant Director Directorate of Adult, Community and Housing Services Dudley MBC

  2. Introduction • Strategic Housing Function • Need to respond to demographic changes: • Growing number of older people • Many older people are mortgage free home owners • Dominance of the 3 bed semi-detached • Two thirds of existing housing has between 1-5 steps up to the property

  3. Care and Support options • Staying Put • Dudley Home Improvement Service • Housing related support • Adult Social Care • Telecare • Sheltered/Supported Housing • 11 Dudley MBC schemes – 761 properties • Housing association schemes • Private market solutions

  4. Developing Extra Care Housing Options • Broad Meadow • Middle Park Road – Russells Hall, Dudley • 132 apartments • Willowfields • Whitehouse Street, Coseley • 72 apartments Age over 55 ShopActivities HallHair and beauty salonGames RoomRestaurantBar and social loungeLaunderetteGreen HouseLifestyle Centre

  5. Extra Care so far • 275 units so far • 202 for rent and 73 for sale/shared ownership • 60 1 bedroom apartments • 215 2 bedroom apartments • 120 units due to open Spring 2015 • 100 for rent and 20 for sale/shared ownership • 49 1 bedroom • 51 2 bedroom • 20 1 or 2 bed (sale) • Coming soon - Stourbridge

  6. Extra Care – Problem or solution? • Challenges: • Requires substantial multi-million pound investment • Increased turnover of council houses and generally higher cost • May not free up the types of property most needed (depending upon your stock profile) • Initially made some neighbouring older people’s housing less popular • Getting the balance right – care needs vs no needs • Personal budgets vs block care contracts • Involve the local GP Practice – resource implications

  7. Extra Care – Problem or solution? • Benefits: • Has widened the range of housing options that are available in the Borough – buy, rent, shared ownership • Has enabled care and support to be more integrated • alternative to residential care • One call/key worker instead of many (combined care and support) • Prevention – residential care/hospital admissions • ‘Zest for Life’ Fantastic standard, white goods, level access, mobility standards, well-being focused ‘you get what you pay for’

  8. Summary • A great housing option for some but needs to be part of a wider spectrum • Levels of initial capital investment required to deliver Extra Care means that it is unlikely to meet large scale needs • There is a need to look at alternative ways to fund retirement housing to help large numbers of owner occupiers who don’t want social rented homes but can’t afford to buy retirement housing

  9. The Affordability of Retirement Housing – All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People • Many ‘middle market’ owner occupiers don’t want social rented accommodation but cant afford to buy market retirement housing • If 50% of the older people who were looking to downsize actually did so, 3.5 million family sized homes would become available • Alternative ownership options – lifetime leases, deferred payment plans, shared equity – ‘Help to move’ (‘Help to Buy’ for older people).

  10. Questions ?

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