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Assessing Housing Needs of Older People

This report explores strategies to assess and plan for the housing needs of the local older population. It emphasizes making effective use of existing housing stock, planning for new supply, and commissioning support services. The guide also provides step-by-step instructions for conducting Local Housing Market Assessments (LHMA) to better understand housing markets and identify data sources. Overall, it aims to improve local capacity, consistency, and good practice in assessing housing needs.

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Assessing Housing Needs of Older People

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  1. Assessing the housing Needs of Older People Jim McKirdle WLGA Housing Policy Officer November 2016

  2. Assess and plan for the current and future housing needs of the local • population across all tenures • Make the best use of the local housing stock • Plan and facilitate new supply • Plan and commission housing support services • Work in partnership to secure effective housing and neighbourhood • management on an on-going basis LA Strategic Housing role

  3. 10 years ago!! • 198 pages • Understanding housing markets • Identifying data sources • Lots of detail Local Housing Market Assessments

  4. Aimed to consolidate and strengthen previous guides on housing market and housing needs assessments, including:- Local Housing Market Assessments

  5. LHMA Partnership

  6. Some in-house LHMAs • But, consultants still kept busy • Cost and complexity as barriers to effective assessments • Limited ownership & understanding • Remained a snapshot in time • Outputs relatively easy to challenge LHMA Progress

  7. WLGA support for Housing • Strategy Network • LHMA practitioners group • - key output • Supporting improvement • & good practice • Dependency on Consultants Getting Started: A Step by Step Guide

  8. The primary aims of this guide are to: • Supplement (but not replace) the 2006 Welsh Assembly Government guidance • Provide a starting point for a quantitative calculation of housing need and an assessment of the local housing market • Introduce more consistency in approaches across Wales whilst acknowledging differences between housing markets and access to data sources • Enable local authorities to undertake an in-house Local Housing Market Assessment (LHMA) and build local capacity and skills • Provide a starting point on which to build a more sophisticated understanding of housing markets Local Housing Market Assessments

  9. Newly arising need Local Housing Market Assessments Backlog of need Affordable housing supply Glen Bramley, Bramley et al. (1998, p.34)

  10. LHMA Calculations

  11. More in-house LHMAs - 2 yrs old, or newer • Strengthening the strategic housing role • Focus on LSVT, WHQS, Homelessness, etc. • CUTS!!!! & impact on capacity • Affordable housing supply & viability challenges LHMA Progress

  12. Jim McKirdle Jim.mckirdle@wlga.gov.uk

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