Making Homes Happen: Homes England's Community Housing Fund
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Making Homes Happen: Homes England's Community Housing Fund
- 1. Making homes happen Homes England Making homes happen
- 2. #MakingHomesHappen Graham Brookfield Specialist – Housing Delivery (Community Led Housing)
- 3. #MakingHomesHappen What will I be talking about today? Homes England A new organisation, who we are and what we do. Community Housing Fund What we can offer
- 4. #MakingHomesHappen Who we are We’re the government’s housing accelerator. We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change. By releasing more land to developers who want to make a difference, we’re making possible the new homes England needs, helping to improve neighbourhoods and grow communities. So we welcome partners who share our ambition to challenge traditional norms and build better homes faster. Join us in breaking new ground to make this happen.
- 5. #MakingHomesHappen Our Strategic Plan Launched in January 2018 to play a major role in fixing the housing market. At Budget 2018, we published our five-year Strategic Plan explaining the steps we’ll take, in partnership with the sector, to do this.
- 6. #MakingHomesHappen Our Strategic Plan One of our key 2018-20 priorities: “Deliver our share of the £163 million national Community Housing Fund, to increase the number of homes delivered by the community-led housing sector”
- 7. #MakingHomesHappen Our mission and objectives
- 8. #MakingHomesHappen Our mission is to intervene in the market to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, to improve affordability. We will make this sustainable by creating a more resilient and diverse housing market.
- 9. #MakingHomesHappen Our objectives We’ll improve construction productivity. We’ll ensure a range of investment products are available to support housebuilding and infrastructure, including more affordable housing and homes for rent, where the market is not acting. We’ll unlock public and private land where the market will not, to get more homes built where they are needed. We’ll create a more resilient and competitive market by supporting smaller builders and new entrants, and promoting better design and higher quality homes. We’ll offer expert support for priority locations, helping to create and deliver more ambitious plans to get more homes built. We’ll effectively deliver home ownership products, providing an industry standard service to consumers.
- 11. #MakingHomesHappen We will: • Aim investments at smaller builders – helping them to scale up so they can access funding, grow and expand • Work with local authorities and housing associations to help them make their vision a reality • Help housing associations through strategic partnership deals – in return for being more ambitious with their delivery • Work closely with housebuilders to promote better design and higher quality homes through Build for Life • Work collaboratively with local areas to help them grow by identifying and overcoming barriers to growth Our commitment We cannot deliver the homes England needs alone.That’s why it’s our job to work with partners across the sector.
- 13. #MakingHomesHappen “We plan to be bold, creative and think big.We hope the whole of the housing sector – big and small, up and down the country – will join us for the next five years and beyond.” Sir Edward Lister Chairman, Homes England
- 15. #MakingHomesHappen Community Housing Fund Open for business! • 2016/17 phase 1 allocations to 148 English LAs (60m) • November 2017 Minister announced new 2 year programme aimed at community groups • £163,000,000 to be distributed by Homes England • Homes England up and running
- 16. #MakingHomesHappen The Objectives of the fund increase housing supply in England by increasing the number of additional homes delivered by the community-led housing sector; provide housing that is affordable at local income levels and remains so in perpetuity; and deliver a lasting legacy for the community-led housing sector in the form of an effective and financially self- sustaining body of expertise within the house building industry in England.
- 18. #MakingHomesHappen Community Housing Fund Project related revenue Infrastructure Who can bid? Groups that are, or intend to become a body corporate LocalAuthorities What will funding cover? Capacity building, project specific professional fees and costs, incl feasibility and design work, planning application, business and project planning Associated infrastructure to open up sites for development, incl access roads/roundabout, remediation, flood attenuation, utilities Limits on payments? No strict limit, but not 100%.To comply with StateAid de-minimus rules total funding in 3 years to 2020 must not exceed 200,000 euros No strict limit, but not 100% Time limits Payment milestones by April 20 Payment milestones by April 20 Need to be RP? No No
- 19. #MakingHomesHappen Community Housing Fund Phase 2 Project Capital Project specific funding for community groups to gap fund to ensure viability.
- 20. #MakingHomesHappen Community Housing Fund Phase 2 launched September 2018 • Addendum to Phase 1 prospectus • Funding to support capital costs, including; • Construction of new homes (incl remediation of land) • Conversion/refurbishment of existing properties • New forms of affordable housing, including those not currently funded • Registration required for low cost rent, not for home ownership tenures • Combine with Affordable Homes Programme
- 21. #MakingHomesHappen What to do next 1 Ask questions At the end of this presention or during lunch. Read the prospectus Guidance can be found here 2 Shape project (s) Identify what you need to do to get on site and build your homes. 3 Articulate bid Identify what we can do to help you. Bidding portal can be found here 4
- 22. #MakingHomesHappen What are we funding – some examples • Communities of interest – existing groups/organisations • Regeneration - empty properties • Town/Parish led projects in rural areas • Co-housing projects • For capital funding need to ensure below market in perpetuity. • Resource in Local Authorities • NO BID ISTHE SAME – we like innovation
- 23. #MakingHomesHappen Who can take a project forward? • Existing community organisation • Community must be engaged and involved throughout • A start up group • Funding available for incorporation • Developer – community partnership • Needs ‘founder members’ from the community • Anyone, help is out there!
- 24. #MakingHomesHappen Timescales • The clock is ticking – end date of March 2020 • All bids in by end of December 2019 • All money committed by end of March 2020 • Talk to Homes England NOW
- 25. #MakingHomesHappen Thanks Graham Brookfield MRTPI CIHM Specialist - Housing Delivery (Community Housing Fund), Homes England (North East,Yorkshire and Humber) Twitter - @homesgrahamb @HomesEngland Email - graham.brookfield@homesengland.gov.uk Phone - 01133 949 369 07970 974336
Editor's Notes
- We had our formal launch in January 2018 – replacing HCA – regulator separate Homes England has been given real political muscle – housing is a national priority. We are creating a new type of organisation – one that will transform the housing market so it delivers the homes this country needs. The numbers are important but we care about quality and place – we need to be more ambitious and do things differently..
- Our 5 year Strategic Plan – sets out our ambitious new mission and the steps we are taking to respond to the long-term housing challenges facing this country. The plan (published 30/10/2018) gives a comprehensive view of how over the next five years we will help more people access better homes in areas where they are needed the most and highlights the significant changes needed to the way industry delivers homes in the future.
- Currently England does not have enough homes in the right places, particularly in the least affordable areas, and the average home costs buyers eight times the average income – and over 10 times the average income in the South East. Our mission is to intervene in the market to ensure more homes are built in the areas of greatest need. We will operate nationally with a focus where affordability pressures are greatest and we will act where there is market failure. Where the market is not working we will: support priority locations, unlock public and private land, invest in housebuilding and infrastructure (including affordable housing and homes for rent), deliver home homeownership products, support smaller builders and new entrants and improve construction productivity. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes.
- We were created to help deliver 300,000 homes annually by the middle of 2020’s We are doing this through a more commercial approach to long term housing challenges. Accelerate delivery – Community Led Housing is part of this. Reaching areas that other delivery mechanisms can’t – small rural, co-housing, community streets, co-ops, land trusts. The market is delivering at it’s comfort capacity. we need your input to do those things others can’t or won’t do. Marginally viable, small & often, different mechanisms for delivery. Community Led Housing is in a unique position to try new things to unlock local markets outside the constraints of normal business plan parameters
- Community Led Housing can deliver against all 6 Unlock difficult sites that the market won’t bring forward Utlise funding to bring forward more affordable housing and site infrastructure Improve productivity e.g. by supporting MMC – modular, off site constrution etc. Supports smaller builders and can deliver higher quality and energy efficient housing Support specific localities to address local need Enable more people to own their home
- We want to increase housing for the community by the community I want to see more community projects That people can afford And for that knowledge of how to do this is not lost – so it can be replicated until it becomes the new normal.
- Ph 1 launched Summer 2018 Project Revenue – professional fees & costs: feasibility, design, business planning & project planning Infrastructure – access roads, roundabouts, flood attenuation, utilities. LA capacity – support services & pipeline development. Where a community has a defined project they should be encouraged to apply directly to us rather than adding an extra layer of approvals. If a LA has not allocated all of their previous capacity funding we will not be able to approve more. We are going to be checking. Must be an incorporated body Not 100% funding – Community groups up to 90% Not specified for LA – but won’t fund full 100% Does not need to be registered to apply for PH 1 funding.
- Unlock housing that would not normally come forward by other means. They can be new build, conversion or refurbs Must be a form of Affordable tenure If a rental product then the group must be registered if they intend on being the land lord the land lord must be registered. But organisation can be the landowner & grant recipient without being the landlord – via SLA or leasehold transfer model. Cost implications - £2,500 registration and annual fee dependent on number of units. Registration is an opportunity to use the expertise of the Regulator to ensure the organisation is robust and financially viable in the long term – yes they ask awkward questions but they do that to help the organisation who is registering. Must be an investment partner to draw down funding directly State aid – not market housing, but can have an element of cross subsidy from OM sales.