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Housing with Care and Support
Ron Sims
Assistant Director
Directorate of Adult, Community and Housing Services
Dudley MBC
Introduction
• Strategic Housing Function
• Need to respond to demographic
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Growing number of older people
Many older people are mortgage free home owners
Dominance of the 3 bed semi-detached
Two thirds of existing housing has between 1-5
steps up to the property
Care and Support options
• Staying Put
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Dudley Home Improvement Service
Housing related support
Adult Social Care
Telecare
• Sheltered/Supported Housing
• 11 Dudley MBC schemes – 761 properties
• Housing association schemes
• Private market solutions
Developing Extra Care Housing Options
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Broad Meadow
Middle Park Road – Russells Hall,
Dudley
132 apartments
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Willowfields
Whitehouse Street, Coseley
72 apartments
Age over 55
Shop
Activities Hall
Hair and beauty salon
Games Room
Restaurant
Bar and social lounge
Launderette
Green House
Lifestyle Centre
Extra Care so far
• 275 units so far
• 202 for rent and 73 for sale/shared ownership
• 60 1 bedroom apartments
• 215 2 bedroom apartments
• 120 units due to open Spring 2015
• 100 for rent and 20 for sale/shared ownership
• 49 1 bedroom
• 51 2 bedroom
• 20 1 or 2 bed (sale)
• Coming soon - Stourbridge
Extra Care – Problem or solution?
• Challenges:
• Requires substantial multi-million pound investment
• Increased turnover of council houses and generally higher
cost
• May not free up the types of property most needed
(depending upon your stock profile)
• Initially made some neighbouring older people’s housing
less popular
• Getting the balance right – care needs vs no needs
• Personal budgets vs block care contracts
• Involve the local GP Practice – resource implications
Extra Care – Problem or solution?
• Benefits:
• Has widened the range of housing options that are available
in the Borough – buy, rent, shared ownership
• Has enabled care and support to be more integrated
 alternative to residential care
 One call/key worker instead of many (combined care and
support)
• Prevention – residential care/hospital admissions
• ‘Zest for Life’ Fantastic standard, white goods, level access,
mobility standards, well-being focused ‘you get what you pay
for’
Summary
• A great housing option for some but needs to
be part of a wider spectrum
• Levels of initial capital investment required to
deliver Extra Care means that it is unlikely to
meet large scale needs
• There is a need to look at alternative ways to
fund retirement housing to help large numbers
of owner occupiers who don’t want social
rented homes but can’t afford to buy
retirement housing
The Affordability of Retirement
Housing – All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and
Care for Older People
• Many ‘middle market’ owner occupiers don’t
want social rented accommodation but cant
afford to buy market retirement housing
• If 50% of the older people who were looking to
downsize actually did so, 3.5 million family
sized homes would become available
• Alternative ownership options – lifetime leases,
deferred payment plans, shared equity – ‘Help
to move’ (‘Help to Buy’ for older people).
Questions
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