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Housing Futures? CCH/NFTMO Conference: 7 May 05

Housing Futures? CCH/NFTMO Conference: 7 May 05. Sarah Webb Director of Policy and Practice Chartered Institute of Housing. today’s agenda. what does the current/future agenda mean for community control? what do we need to do to shape the future? some final thoughts?.

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Housing Futures? CCH/NFTMO Conference: 7 May 05

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  1. Housing Futures?CCH/NFTMO Conference: 7 May 05 Sarah Webb Director of Policy and Practice Chartered Institute of Housing

  2. today’s agenda • what does the current/future agenda mean for community control? • what do we need to do to shape the future? • some final thoughts?

  3. 1.impact of current/future agenda on community control

  4. verymixed messages

  5. positive messages (1) ODPM: • the ‘Sustainable Communities Plan’ puts communities ‘at the heart’ • Community Plans etc • LA option appraisals (and options) should deliver more tenant empowerment • neighbourhood management is all the rage HC: • support for community control of HAs • Investment Partnering Programme should increase ‘end-user satisfaction’

  6. positive messages (2) Audit Commission: • inspects for tenant involvement Government: • promotes choice (No.10) • promotes neighbourhood decision-making (No.11) • ‘new localism’

  7. nothing specifically anti but quite a lot of indirect challenges

  8. challenging messages (1) • regional agenda: • more decisions made by un-elected regional bodies • reduced role for local authorities • and little community engagement

  9. challenging messages (2) • national targets: • pressurises landlords to deliver & fast • on the government’s rather than the community’s agenda

  10. challenging messages (3) • decent homes target: • can drive LAs to work too fast for consultation • and over-ride views of tenants • Barker Review on housing supply: • requires ‘step change’ in supply • planning reforms will ‘go round’ opposition

  11. challenging messages (4) • inspection agenda: • moves away from inspection • moves toward corporate assessment of business strategies not service delivery • governance/risk agenda: • as business grow will funders and regulators support community control? • will community be prepared to take on the new world of risk management?

  12. challenging messages (5) • social business agenda: • expected to deliver more than housing • & operate in more ‘private sector’ way • neighbourhood management: • NRU is now part of ‘disadvantage team’ • some NDCs are in trouble • its seen as an initiative not a way of life

  13. challenging messages (6) • private sector agenda • will developers engage with communities • or ask community controlled landlords to manage their housing? • will ‘contracts’ include community control?

  14. challenging messages (7) • cross-tenure agenda: • more focus on owners • more influence of owners • home ownership agenda • residualises social renting • focus on individual not community • can make it harder to act at community level

  15. challenging messages (8) • efficiency agenda: • promotes ever larger landlords • and more complex group/partnership arrangements • requires cost reductions • and focuses on speed of delivery • community involvement takes time and money

  16. 2.shaping the future

  17. opportunities • ODPM’s ‘People, Places, Prosperity’ • and ‘new localism’ at Treasury • anti-transfer/ALMO agenda • Community Gateway Model: • Preston, Poplar HARCA • neighbourhood management agenda

  18. what can CIH do? • promote ‘best practice’ to landlords • develop new ways of working • ALMOs ‘freedoms and flexibilities’ • 51% tenant control? • Community Gateway Model • champion the agenda • Spending Review submission, manifestos, conferences, awards • encourage communities/you to influence us!

  19. the new government means …….

  20. 3.some final thoughts

  21. some final thoughts (1) • the efficiency agenda is a real threat • but perhaps not if we focus on outcomes rather than structures • but ‘new localism’ is a real opportunity • but perhaps not if its all about providers • its still landlords that often remain resistance to giving up control

  22. some final thoughts (2) • what is the ‘community’ • are we setting up owners vs. tenants? • someone has to protect ‘vulnerable’ people/those in need – now/in future • control isn't everything!

  23. www.cih.org

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