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SOCIAL HOUSING: VISION 2020

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 tjb@dmu.ac.uk 16 October 2014. Three Key Messages.

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SOCIAL HOUSING: VISION 2020

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  1. 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 tjb@dmu.ac.uk 16 October 2014

  2. Three Key Messages • Alluring but Misleading to Focus on New Legislation, Major Developments, the Election(s) etc • Existing Stock and Households • ‘Self Help’

  3. Definitions • Social Housing • Allocated According to Need Rather Than Ability to Pay • Less than Market Rent • Need!

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. No Knight in Shining Armour Coming to the Rescue of Social Housing! So…Help Ourselves and Focus on Stock and Households

  7. 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

  8. What are the Benefits? • Quick Wins • Utilising Hidden Capacity and Underused Assets • Less Capital Expenditure • Tackling Related Issues e.g. Neighbourhood Blight

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Summary • Help Ourselves: ‘Localism’ and ‘Devolution’ in Action • Comprehensive and Co-ordinated Local Approach on Existing (Social) Housing Stock and Households

  13. Discussions and Questions Dr Tim Brown timothy.brown1954@gmail.com or tjb@dmu.ac.uk

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