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GERA DRYMER
STRATEGY MANAGER
March 2011
HCA role
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An enabling and investment agency
Responsible for:
Affordable rent
programme
Land
and regeneration
Existing stock
“I see (the HCA) as an enabling and investment body. Or in plain
English, the
people who help to get things done.”
The HCA will provide three types of investment
Affordable housing
Existing stock
Land and regeneration
 A new affordable
housing programme, up
to 150,000 affordable
rent units
 The policy aim,
consistent with localism,
is to achieve a selffinancing settlement for
local authority social
housing
 The HCA will work in
partnership with other
public agencies to
deliver value and
benefits for local
communities from public
land assets
 We will also complete
existing commitments
under the NAHP
 Total investment of
£4.5bn over the
spending review
 The HCA will provide
efficient delivery
systems and drive
overall value for money
and quality
 The HCA will manage a
£2.1bn programme of
investment needed to
deal with repairs to a
point where selffinancing becomes
viable
 We will also enable
local authorities to
connect this investment
to other opportunities,
especially around
energy efficiency
 This will include a
central role in realising
benefits from the land
assets left by the
abolition of the RDAs
 The HCA will also
complete existing longterm regeneration
commitments that are
high priorities for local
areas
These programmes will be at the heart of the new HCA
Affordable homes – Spending Review
outcome
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Government investing over £6.5bn in housing, including over
£2bn to make existing social homes decent and £4.5bn to
fund new affordable homes
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£4.5bn includes provision for:
– Affordable rent
– Bringing empty homes back into use
– Mortgage Rescue
– Places of Change
– Gypsy and Traveller sites
EH in strategic context
EH can:
 Add to supply to meet housing need
 Improve housing conditions
 Regenerate blighted areas
 Increase the Council Tax collection rate
 Produce savings on TA expenditure
 Produce savings on health, crime, tackling arson
 Assist in managing urban areas
 Integral to asset management strategies
 Produce better relations between local authorities and
the private sector.
HCA Contributions
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TSHG – over £2.2m for 695 units as at mid
Jan 2010
HMR Pathfinders
Decent Homes
Part of the HCA local investment plans work
with LAs and partners
Regeneration and new supply; community
benefit and well-being
HCA resources
Challenges
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Economic downturn and pressure on LAs budgets
poses risk to the empty homes agenda
Risks of loss of capacity
Similar financial pressures on the civic sector; threat to
viability of skilled organisations and the overall capacity
to contribute to the empty homes agenda
Proposed changes to LHA; risk of negative impact on
empty property owners’ engagement, AND
CT Data: Section 85 of the Local Government Act 2003
allows Council Tax to share information on empty
homes with other sections of an authority.
OPPORTUNITIES
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Ministerial priority
£100m Affordable Homes Programme
New Homes Bonus
Localism
Changes to EDMOs framework
(neighbourhood support)
Current capacity
HCA enabling role
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Bespoke training
GIS mapping of long term EH
Web based knowledge hub
AHP 2011/12 – 2014/15
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£100m / 3,300 homes
Blighted homes, not back into use without
intervention
Through any of the product options available
in the AHP
LAs strategic leadership role and support
Community sector involvement
LIPs
HCA Enabling Offer
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Capacity building:
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GIS mapping
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>260 LAs at end January 2011
17 LAs bespoke training
EH On-line Debate: feedback shared with DCLG
Long term EH / private ownership
Cross-analysis tool
EH Toolkit
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Feedback from EH On-line Debate
Pooling EH info under one roof
Case studies
Conclusion
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Ministerial priority
Potential: housing needs and homelessness
Part of asset management and housing
strategies
Role in regeneration
Impact of HB reform
Impact of lower levels of public investment
HCA investment and enabling role
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