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Policy for the future
Sarah Davis, CIH, July 2014
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About today
• Focus – future for social housing
• Whole housing market –impacts on social
housing
• Current policies and issues arising
• What do we want – shape of future policies
• Indications of future policies
• CIH’s work – what and why
• What can we do
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Current context
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policies
Austerity – continuing into next Parliament
Public expenditure and welfare reducing
HB still taking strain within constraints
Use of guarantees, less grants
Private and market solutions
Home ownership still a major aim – inc. building up
assets to tackle other public policy challenges
Balance of demand and supply measures
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Budget/ queen’s speech
• Repayable fund to
support small and
medium developers
• Repayable fund to
support custom build
• Ebbsfleet plus
• Fund for regeneration –
available to private
developers
• Cap on overall welfare
spending
• Changes to Section 106
• Locally led garden cities
• Sale of high value govt
land
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Where we are now
Numbers delivered:
Private 109,370 completions
122,590 starts
Help to buy almost 13,000
Affordable 42,830 (12/13)
Social rent 17,580
Affordable rent 6,960
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Impacts
• Affordable rents impacts on
poverty
• Cost of living challenges: 46%
from 2008 cpd 19% income
• Changing population and costs
• Asset based approaches to long
term care and support
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Election 2015
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Direction of travel
• Continued constraints on public spending:
What and where?
• Wider connections:
not only housing policy, but welfare and
economic policies
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Your top 3
priorities for social
housing?
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The political context
Latest polling results – gap narrowing
 Fighting election in post coalition
environment
 Different parties – different approach to
policy formulation and consultation
 Housing higher up agenda
Consistently in top 10 for the year
Opportunities and risks
 Some agreements on challenges
 Much less on solutions
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Conservatives
• Economy central plank –
competency
• ‘Hard working families’
• Further welfare reforms/
reductions
• Focus on under 25s
• Other groups?
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Conservatives: housing
• Housebuilding – planning/ stimulus for
private development
• Focus on numbers
• Help to buy extension to 2020
• Further / ongoing guarantees
• Private and market solutions
• Funding to infrastructure rather than
housing?
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Lib Dems
• Positioning as necessary partner
• Building more homes – needs and welfare
impacts
• Security and standards in rental sector
• Review of bedroom tax
• Review of HRA borrowing – pooling rather than
raising
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Labour
• Prepared to intervene where markets fail
• Lyons commission – policies ready to deliver
200,000 homes pa w/in 5 years
E.g. ‘use it or lose it’; new towns
• No NPPF teaks but consistent methodology on
needs assessment
• Repeal bedroom tax
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Labour
PRS interventions:
• 3 year tenancies
• Rent formula
• Ban on letting agency
fees for signing tenancy
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Challenges
• Keeping housing central as
election gets nearer
• Manifestos and programme
for government
• Positioning with impacts for
economy – part of the
infrastructure
• Housing crisis
• With solutions
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How to influence?
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CIH ticking the box for housing
• Influence pre election debate
• Influence post election programme for
government
• Widespread understanding of positions
• Member involvement in developing and
promoting our positions
• Discussions/ work with stakeholders
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Policy positions: Key tests
• Apply across whole housing market
• Original, constructive and radical
• Practical, deliverable and evidence
based
• Involve members; clearly understood
by members and beyond
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Addressing the supply crisis
• Enough new homes built to meet
need
• All homes of good physical standard
and environmentally sustainable
• Supply takes account of our changing
population and of local circumstances
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Balancing affordability and
welfare
• A range of housing options available at
different prices to cater for people with a
range of incomes
• Everyone is able to afford to live in a home
and maintain a decent standard of living
• The welfare system enables everyone to
live in a home which is right for their
needs
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More than bricks and mortar
• People are given the help that they need
to find and sustain a suitable home
• People are supported to live independent
and healthy lives at home
• People live in strong cohesive
communities which enable them to
achieve their full potential
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Influencing and
communicating
Audiences
Channels
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• Ticking the box
• Collaboration – Homes for
Britain
• Website – blogs, essays and
polling
• Social media
• CIH member panel
• Conferences and events –
Housing 2014
• Regular liaison top 50
stakeholders
Members
Public opinion
Political parties
Key opinion formers
Senior decision makers
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What can we do?
• Your local priorities
• Identifying key decision
makers and targets
• What opportunities you
have locally
Personally:
What candidates are going
to do:
• To increase
housebuilding locally?
Nationally?
• Tackle rent and house
prices?
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Campaigns/ activities
Tick the box for housing
SHOUT the campaign for social
housing
Facebook and twitter
@4socialhousing
Council homes chat
Addressing the negative portrayal
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Any questions?
[email protected]
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