1. Delivering Great Homes for Greater Manchester GM APPG
Paul Dennett
Salford City Mayor
Greater Manchester Combined Authority Portfolio Lead for Housing, Homelessness and Infrastructure

2. Challenge: consistent under-delivery of homes
Local Housing Need
Source: MHCLG Live Tables 122 and 1008C

3. Challenge: 85,000 households on the housing register
Source: Local Authority Housing Statistics dataset, England : Section C – Allocations

4. Challenge: 30,000 households in reasonable preference
Source: GM SHMA 2018

5. Challenge: growing private rented sector
Source: Census

6. Challenge: rough sleeping
Source: MHCLG Rough Sleeping Statistics 2017

7. Housing White Paper Fixing Our Broken Housing Market
Planning for the right homes in the right places
Building homes faster
Diversifying the market
Increasing housing delivery from social landlords

8. Devo-Manc First Deal announced November 2014
Set out new powers for the GMCA on condition of agreeing to an elected mayor who will also fulfil the role of the Police and Crime Commissioner
Powers cover transport, business support, employment and skills support, spatial planning, housing investment, earn-back and governance reforms

9. Economic development and regeneration powers
Duty to prepare and publish a GM spatial development strategy
Provide, or facilitate the provision of housing and infrastructure
Develop and regenerate land
Acquire land, compulsorily or by agreement
Designate areas of land as mayoral development areas leading to the establishment of mayoral development corporations
Additional powers in relation to skills, adult education and training

10. Finance and investment powers
Control of “earn-back” monies (£30 million pa)
Control of Housing Investment Fund
£300 million Housing Fund, administered by GMCA
Ten-year committed local government funding
Traditional development finance to support housing growth across Greater Manchester
Set up to encourage, accelerate and unlock residential housing schemes
Monies recycled critical to building affordable housing

11. Additional Mayoral ‘soft powers’
Soft powers of the Mayor are arguably the most important:
Influencing, negotiating powers
‘Ear’ of government and key contacts
Relationships with stakeholders
Public persona – media interest, both local and national profile
Network of City Mayors (national and international) - joint lobbying, strength of voice and influence

12. Greater Manchester Strategy
GM new strategic approach: a different way of working
Communities in control
People at the heart of everything we do
An integrated approach to “place-shaping”
Leadership and accountability
Taking control of our future

13. Priority 6: Safe, decent and affordable housing
Tackling rough sleeping and reducing homelessness
Providing neighbourhoods of choice for residents
Strategic approach to improving the quality, connectivity and sustainability of our neighbourhoods through the GM Spatial Framework
Innovative approaches to housing development:
Delivering the homes we need through existing Government programmes and the GM Housing Investment Fund
Agreeing a Housing Package with Government, to unlock additional housing delivery through a place-based programme approach
Ensuring a pipeline of housing land through GM Spatial Framework and One Public Estate

14. What are we doing… Greater Manchester Spatial Framework
Identifying the level and type of housing and economic growth we should be planning for
Ensuring we have an appropriate supply of land to meet this need
It will help us to:
Deliver the right homes in the right places
take a ‘strategic view’ on the big issues, greenbelt, flood risk
plan for infrastructure collectively and more effectively
protect our most valuable land and assets
Household projections due in September and will update our Local Housing Need
Next consultation planned for October

15. What are we doing… Greater Manchester Housing Package
GM Housing Package announced by Government in March 2018
Ensures that Greater Manchester will be able to capitalise on opportunities presented by large scale transport investment
Strengthens collaborative working with Homes England and MHCLG to help develop a secure pipeline of housing development
Better coordination in planning, decision-making and delivery of housing across Greater Manchester to maximise value and benefits from investment
New housing in strategically planned locations that integrate housing and transport infrastructure provision
Growing good quality stock, with high levels of accessibility to jobs and training

16. What are we doing… Greater Manchester Housing Package
Provides Land Fund of £50m to support remediation of brownfield land for housing
Up to £8m in capacity funding to build a team to support districts’ work on bringing housing developments forward
Secured £70m Marginal Viability Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF)
Four HIF Forward Funding bids through to the next stage – Salford, Manchester, Bolton/Wigan and Stockport – potentially £240m
A Land & Infrastructure Commission to coordinate our work with Government and the wider public sector on housing delivery and public land
Flexibility on recycling to deliver more with the GM Housing Investment Loan Fund
Negotiating the details of the Housing Package delivery plan with MHCLG to take this forward

17. What are we doing… Housing Investment Fund
To date the Housing Investment Fund has committed over £414m
Supporting delivery of more than 5,500 homes across Greater Manchester
The Fund reached the £300m milestone after two-and-a-half years, and is utilising recycled funds
It is continuing to invest in more homes across Greater Manchester

18. What are we doing… Homelessness
Secured £3.8m for GM Homelessness Prevention Trailblazer Programme
Secured £1.8m GM Social Impact Bond to support entrenched rough sleepers
Developing an £8m GM Housing First Programme
Adopted a 3-year Strategy to end the need for rough sleeping by 2020
Updated Hospital Discharge Protocols with commitment to no discharge to the street
Developed a GM Homelessness Action Network of stakeholders and providers across GM, featuring dedicated Business and Faith Networks
Delivered the first consistent GM-wide Cold Weather Provision in 2017/18
Developing a more consistent and common approach to the Homelessness Reduction Act across GM

19. Priority 6 – Safe, decent and affordable housing
Tracking our progress
GMS targets
By 2020, more than 10,000 net additional dwellings will be built per annum, up from 6,190 in 2015/16 G
End rough sleeping by 2020, from an estimated 189 rough sleepers in 2016 R
An estimated 268 rough sleepers in GM in 2017, or 0.23 per 1,000 households
7,892 net new additional dwellings in GM in 2016/17
940 dwellings ahead of the target trajectory
Number of net additional dwellings, 2016/17, and change compared to 2015/16
Bolton
437
-75
Bury
368 33
Manchester
1,792 35
Oldham
326 66
Rochdale
315 7
Salford
2,482
1,384
Stockport
660
337
Tameside
365
-228
Trafford
330
-31
Wigan
817
178 GM
7,892
1,706
England
217,345
27,700
Rate per 1,000 households
Bolton
0.14
Bury
0.12
Manchester
0.42
Oldham
0.02
Rochdale
0.09
Salford
0.44
Stockport
0.08
Tameside
Trafford
0.05
Wigan
0.21 GM
0.23
England
0.20
Above the England average of 0.20 per 1,000 households, with individual districts significantly above
A further 1,706 new dwellings compared to
Up from 189 in 2016
Supporting indicators
Source: Greater Manchester Strategy Performance Report (Apr-18)
In 2017, the ratio of lower quartile house prices to median incomes in GM was 4.2, compared to the England average of 5.0
Affordability in GM declined slightly compared to 2016, when the ratio was 4.0
In 2015/16, 0.9% of GM housing stock (11,150 properties) had been empty for over 6 months, compared to 0.8% for England as a whole
A decrease of 723 properties
since 2014/15
In Q3 2017, positive action was successful in preventing or relieving homelessness in 4,685 cases, a rate of 3.9 per 1,000 households, compared to 2.2 for England as a whole
Up on the previous
year by 483 cases
In November 2017, there were 240,300 people in receipt of housing benefit or households in receipt of the housing element of Universal Credit, a rate of 86 per 1,000 of the population, compared to 71.6 nationally.
The gap between GM and the national average closed by 6%
when compared to
November 2016
In 2016, 93.5% of GM residents stated that they “liked the neighbourhood” they live in, compared to 94.9% nationally, an increase of 1.0 percentage point from 2013
[ This indicator is drawn from responses to Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. Scoping is underway surrounding the possibility of gathering more timely data using responses to a bespoke GM survey, which would incorporate recognised language from the LGA in relation to resident’s opinions of their local area ] G A G R A

20. What more do we need to deliver quality homes at scale?
Partnership with Homes England
Flexibility on the Housing Delivery Test
GM setting own approach to affordability
Power to develop an overarching Homelessness Strategy
Pooled homelessness funding
Control of setting Local Housing Allowance levels