
View:
Databases

Social Housing

• Main

• Main Plus

• Summary

• New Build / Regeneration

• Contractor / Contract Tool

• Strategy Tool

• Builders & Contractors

Education

Housebuilder

Training

Specialist Literature

Bespoke Research

Main Social Housing

The Main Social Housing Database contains everything you need to know about the Social Housing sector, enabling you to effectively formulate business plans, direct your sales operations and plan your marketing activities. It includes a half day ‘Understanding the Social Housing Sector’ training session tailored to your own company’s requirements covering government legislation relating to housing and new funding, and identifying key priorities and their implications for your business. Also included is a monthly bulletin providing details on sales leads, new funding, transfer information, changes in personnel and Government legislation.

This Database also contains:

Research into contract decisions made by all stock owning Local Authorities & Arms Length Management Organisations covering:

Decent Homes Work & Target Dates Ongoing Maintenance Work (& Stores Info)

Similar information for Housing Associations owning over 10,000 stock in England.

Refurbishment

Local Authorities are currently undertaking a staggering amount of work in order to meet the Decent Homes Standard. This Database provides an overview of this work including:

Background details for each Local Authority, Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO) and Housing Association (HA) including the amount of housing stock owned, location and who to contact.
Narrative information regarding each option available to Local Authorities to bring their homes up to the standard and the rules that govern them. Options include setting up an ALMO, transferring housing stock to an RSL utilising PFI or using existing funding streams.
Details of the option(s) chosen by each Local Authority and how they will refurbish their stock.
A review of their progress to date, identifying those landlords that have now met the Decent Homes Standard, those that have works underway and those that have yet to commence their programme.

Example screen shot taken from this Database:

Ongoing Maintenance Arrangements

The Database includes comprehensive information on Ongoing Maintenance Arrangements including details of how this is to be managed. Within this section, we also break down the funding allocated for planned maintenance via the Major Repairs Allowance (MRA), which will provide a known income, year on year, for maintenance capital works.

Personnel

We identify, among many other posts, the personnel that control the organisation’s housing management and maintenance: Head of the Housing Department, the Head of Housing Maintenance, the Head of Procurement (Building Works) and the Head of the Direct Labour Organisation (DLO).

Social Housing New Homes Development Programme

For the first time:

The National Affordable Housing Programme will run over three years from 2008-2011.
All the funding has not been fully allocated at the start of the programme.
Over £8.4 billion worth of grant (with an estimated project value of approximately £21 billion) will be awarded.
Only 'pre-qualified' organisations can bid for funding. These now include HAs, Local Authorities, ALMOs & Housebuilders.

How will the NAHP funding be allocated?

Due to the problems being experienced in the finance sector and the knock on effect in the house building sector, the Homes and Communities Agency (formerly the Housing Corporation) has brought allocations forward.

How much funding remains to be allocated?

In June 2009, the Prime Minister announced that further funding would be made available under the NAHP. £656 million additional funding was allocated to the programme, bringing the total available funding to just over £9 billion.
Following NAHP allocations in December 2009 under the CME 6 funding round, £8.54 billion has now been committed. This leaves £525 million still to be allocated under the programme.

NAHP Information Available

The Database allows you to review the complete list of Investment Partners bidding for funding. It also provides full details of all allocations of funding to date, identifying partners, scheme locations and includes individual project details.

All of the information contained within this database will provide you with the specific plans of social landlords to help you identify and prioritise opportunities as well as formulate sales and marketing strategies.

The above information is just a brief overview of the database. For further details of the content and how it can be of benefit please contact us. We can review your requirements and recommend which of our databases will be the most appropriate for you.