What Future for Social Housing?

SHOUT The Campaign for Social Housing

• Manifesto
• Lobbying
• Build to Save Report
• 100,000 social rent per year
• 150,000 other tenures too
• End to Stigmatisation of people who rent
• www.4socialhousing.co.uk

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The Housing Crisis

• Most agree there is one
• Lots of suggestions to fix it
• CIH, NHF, NFAlmos, LGA, ARCH, NFTMO, CCH
• Shelter, Crisis, DCH, AxeTheAct, Generation Rent
• Build more, NIMBY, Green Belt, Brownfield, Planners, BANANAs

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Housing & Planning Act 2016

• Starter Homes
• Shorter tenancies
• Define Affordable
• Voluntary Right to Buy
• Higher Value Vacant Sales

Money for Nothing?

• 1% Rent cut
• Overall benefit cap
• HB limited to LHA rates
• Pay to Stay

Game of Two Halves

• 19 defeats
• Many concessions
• Ping Pong
• But much still to be sorted

Pay to Stay

• £31,000 England
• £40,000 London
• 15p in the £1
• Joint taxable income of tenant and spouse
• Councils must, HAs can
• Council sends cash to Treasury

Lifetime tenancies

• Fixed term
• Minimum 2 years
• Families with children up till date child is 19
• Can renew
• Councils must, HAs can

Voluntary Right To Buy

• For HA tenants
• 10 years
• Same discount as council
• Choice of HA to sell
• 1 for 1 replacement

HIGHER VALUE EMPTIES

• Pays for HA RTB
• Don't have to sell but Council pays levy to Treasury
• Treasury gives cash to HA to fund discount
• Money go Round

Nothing going on but the Rent

• 1% cut each year
• Biggest impact on supported housing
• Overall benefit cap cut - families at risk
• HB limited to LHA rate - will impact single persons and childless couples

What to do?

• Stick to the knitting
• Help to write the regulations
• Continue to campaign and lobby
• Housing Day 19/9/16
• General election 2016?

Thanks for listening

• @timmorton2
• @4socialhousing