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What Future for Social Housing? 的副本

Overview of key parts of Housing and Planning Act 2016 as it affects social housing tenants in Tenant Management Organisations #PayToStay #FiveYearTenancies #SellingEmptyCouncilHouses #LHAMaxima

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What Future for Social Housing?

Tim Morton - SHOUT
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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
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Game of Two Halves

  • 19 defeats
  • Many concessions
  • Ping Pong
  • But much still to be sorted
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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Thanks for listening

  • @timmorton2
  • @4socialhousing
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