The Future of Social Housing Current Challenges & Future Prospects

Pete Bailey

1st 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 thisRefreshed strategies which cover:

Growth in supplyland availabilityplanning policy access to development finance

AccessRange of ownership productsAll forms of renting

Quality ProductServicesPlace

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

1st October 2013