The Future of Social Housing Current Challenges & Future Prospects Pete Bailey 1 st October 2013
Content Generate discussion on core issues Headline challenges and responses Underlying longer term impact and gaps Developing and influencing strategic responses What will happen next?
Current Challenges & Responses Just the 2? –Numbers –Welfare Reform
…….and the rest Localism Polarisation Exclusion Role in economic growth & inclusion Overall strategy and partnerships
What are we looking to do? Optimise housing’s impact on inclusive economic growth Direct and measurable impacts –Importance of providers to local economies –Value of construction Indirect impacts - larger, more important and more nebulous –Quality of place –Switch areas to net economic contributors –Confidence – investors, consumers and place –Negative effect of supply and quality failure Critical to get the narrative right on this
Who are we working for? Some basics haven’t changed –Existing customers – high quality services, protecting their interests, –Local communities – extending range of services in neighbourhoods – last people standing Some may need rethinking – Primarily those in greatest need? Others have…and there’s now an unfilled gap –Who supports those increasingly excluded from the housing market? E.g. lower income/insecure economically active
How do we do this Refreshed strategies which cover: Growth in supply land availability planning policy access to development finance Access Range of ownership products All forms of renting Quality Product Services Place Delivery Multi disciplinary teams and partnerships at larger spatial levels
Future Policy? Set to remain high on political agenda Likely to be same 2 key headline issues Continued focus on private development Growth of PRS Approach to investment support + accessing development finance for affordable/social housing –AHP? –LA Borrowing? –Land Philosophical shift? Local governance arrangements
The Future of Social Housing Current Challenges & Future Prospects Pete Bailey 1 st October 2013