Better Homes, Places, Opportunities – the Council’s Housing Strategy to 2015
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Better Homes, Places, Opportunities – the Council’s Housing Strategy to 2015 A presentation to the Better Homes
Partnership Board – 16th September 2009
Steve Douglas, Corporate Director Neighbourhoods and Regeneration
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Better Homes, Places, Opportunities
• Our ambitions: where we would like to be by 2015
• Context & challenges
• Our key proposals
• Our key asks
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Where we want to be by 2015
Measurable progress on the housing aspects of the Sustainable Communities Strategy, notably:
• Well-planned growth that supports sustainable communities
• estate renewal delivery
• More locally affordable homes
• Reduced worklessness and better, locally co-ordinated services
Underpinned by:
• Quality, innovation, resident engagement, and the best use of partnership resources
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Some key achievements so far
• 2 star ALMO
• 1,700 new NAHP-funded homes 2008/9 and 2009/10
• 50%+ of social rented three bedrooms or more
• Estate renewal: cleared sites for 800 new homes
• City Strategy Pathfinder: 800+ helped into work
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Contextual changes - 1
• Large rise in private renting since 2003
• No rise in mortgaged owner-occupation
• Drop in relets from social rented stock
• Credit crunch/ economic downturn
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Contextual changes - 2
• HCA – Single Conversation on housing and regeneration
• Draft London Housing Strategy
• Olympic MAA
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Housing growth in Hackney – planned and potential
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Key challenges
• Popularity of the borough and land use pressures
• Best fit between needs/ aspirations and resources
• Getting design right
• Challenging GLA targets
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Our Housing Strategy
1. Mixed and sustainable communities: Quality, affordable homes for all income groups
2. Attractive neighbourhoods: Places where people want to live
3. Prosperous Communities: The chance for everyone to thrive and earn a good living
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Core Objective One: Mixed & sustainable
communitiesKey priority areas
include:
• Tackling homelessness and overcrowding, especially through best use of existing resources
• Increasing housing supply where feasible
• Getting the family-sized “offer” right
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Core Objective One: Key priority areas (2)
• Improved housing advice and information
• Ensuring intermediate housing becomes a real tenure of choice, for those on middle incomes, especially some social housing tenants
• Tapping into a thriving private rented sector without compromising other strategic objectives (eg reduced worklessness)
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Core Objective Two: Attractive neighbourhoods
Key priority areas:
• Delivering estate renewal programmes
• Maintain and improve other social housing stock
• Decent homes in the private sector
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Core Objective Two:Key priority areas (2)
• High quality standards of design
• Climate change and fuel poverty
• High management standards across all rented housing
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Core Objective Three: Prosperous communities
Key priority areas:
• Worklessness: build on the City Strategy Pathfinder
• Improved service co-ordination/integration and strengthened neighbourhood role
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The Single Conversation in Hackney
• The process by which HCA will engage with LAs on all aspects of housing and regeneration
• Connects our local ambitions and priorities with national targets
• Strategy, investment, capacity and delivery
• Early output - a Local Investment Plan, articulating shared priorities
• Important for us to speak with a single voice on housing & regeneration
• …. and for the MAA boroughs !