Places for People owns approximately 63,000 properties across the UK. It established a GIS system in 2006 but faced challenges in maintaining it until dedicating staff in 2008. The organization now uses GIS to inform community investment work such as identifying areas for funding, neighborhood planning, and stock rationalization. It also utilizes open data and works with partners to maximize the benefits of GIS while managing the data overload risk. The future involves expanding current projects and the number of GIS users.
According to a 2007 Utah crash report:
- 778 pedestrians were struck by vehicles that year, resulting in 681 injuries and 32 deaths. Pedestrian crashes accounted for 11% of traffic deaths.
- Over half of drivers and pedestrians in crashes were under 35 and under 25 years old, respectively.
- The most common contributing factors for drivers were failing to yield and distraction, while the most common for pedestrians were improper crossing and darting into traffic.
This document summarizes a housing association's efforts to promote local economic development and community regeneration through its procurement practices. It discusses how the association established a local labor clause to target 75% of employment and training opportunities to local residents. While challenging to measure individual and community impacts, this approach has kept more money circulating in the local economy and provided training. The association uses a "trainee deposit sum" to incentivize contractors to meet targeted recruitment and training goals. Examples are given of targeting deprived areas and tracking outcomes through methods like measuring local spend multipliers.
Symphony Housing Group is a large registered social landlord in England that owns approximately 40,000 homes in the North West region. It is proposing to merge Contour Housing Group and Vicinity Group to further expand. Some key points about Symphony's local economic impact include:
- It spends over £74.5 million annually on property management and maintenance alone, and over £155 million on new developments from 2008-2012.
- This spending is procured at various levels from large contracts over £3.9 million down to small purchases, providing opportunities for local and regional businesses.
- Symphony works to maximize local economic impact through its procurement processes and partnerships while still achieving value for money. However, there
Aster's Local Economic Impact provides economic benefits to the local area through its roles as an employer, landlord, and developer. As an employer, Aster employs over 1200 people with an annual payroll of £32.5 million. As a landlord, Aster rents nearly 15,000 properties at below-market rates, saving at least £12 million per year in housing benefits. As a developer building 500 new homes per year, Aster supports over 750 local jobs and increases council tax revenues.
The document provides an overview of the Empty Homes Programme in the UK. Some key points:
- The number of empty homes has decreased by 14% between 2010-2012, with over 93,000 homes brought back into use since 2011.
- Challenges include the time it takes to establish projects, negotiate with owners, and carry out enforcement procedures. Successes include refurbishing homes to a high quality and innovative identification methods.
- There are opportunities to better measure wider social benefits like employment, training, and neighborhood renewal, and to promote best practices across the program. Identifying empty homes and engaging owners remains difficult due to limited resources and owners' reluctance.
The document discusses understanding and supporting local economies. It argues that the current economic system is unsustainable, unfair, and unstable. The ultimate goal should be maximizing well-being and living within environmental limits through economic activity at a scale that provides social and environmental benefits. It suggests focusing economic opportunities on reducing fossil fuel reliance, negative environmental impacts, and seeking positive outcomes. Measuring local spending multipliers can show how money circulates within a local economy and identify opportunities to better retain wealth locally through local spending and supply chains. Every way organizations spend money could potentially open local opportunities and generate positive local outcomes.
This document discusses the potential of open data for social housing organizations. It begins by explaining how social policy has historically focused on either individual households in poverty or deprived areas, but not both together. The document then outlines how housing organizations currently collect tenant and asset information, but often consider areas or households separately rather than together. It proposes taking an open data approach using open source software and open data sources to map tenants and understand their contexts. The key benefits outlined are gaining control of own data, better understanding social return on investment, relating tenant and area-based initiatives, making more evidence-based investment decisions, and early warnings of area problems - all at a lower cost through shared platforms and analysis.
Plus Dane considers local economic impact in its business strategies and investment decisions. It measures the impact of its decisions on enterprise, neighborhoods, and homes. For example, its investment in a youth program reduced nuisance behaviors and increased volunteerism. It also partners with organizations to pool funding and resources, creating jobs and attracting visitors to improve areas. Plus Dane tracks metrics like social return on investment to evidence how its decisions benefit communities.
According to a 2007 Utah crash report:
- 778 pedestrians were struck by vehicles that year, resulting in 681 injuries and 32 deaths. Pedestrian crashes accounted for 11% of traffic deaths.
- Over half of drivers and pedestrians in crashes were under 35 and under 25 years old, respectively.
- The most common contributing factors for drivers were failing to yield and distraction, while the most common for pedestrians were improper crossing and darting into traffic.
This document summarizes a housing association's efforts to promote local economic development and community regeneration through its procurement practices. It discusses how the association established a local labor clause to target 75% of employment and training opportunities to local residents. While challenging to measure individual and community impacts, this approach has kept more money circulating in the local economy and provided training. The association uses a "trainee deposit sum" to incentivize contractors to meet targeted recruitment and training goals. Examples are given of targeting deprived areas and tracking outcomes through methods like measuring local spend multipliers.
Symphony Housing Group is a large registered social landlord in England that owns approximately 40,000 homes in the North West region. It is proposing to merge Contour Housing Group and Vicinity Group to further expand. Some key points about Symphony's local economic impact include:
- It spends over £74.5 million annually on property management and maintenance alone, and over £155 million on new developments from 2008-2012.
- This spending is procured at various levels from large contracts over £3.9 million down to small purchases, providing opportunities for local and regional businesses.
- Symphony works to maximize local economic impact through its procurement processes and partnerships while still achieving value for money. However, there
Aster's Local Economic Impact provides economic benefits to the local area through its roles as an employer, landlord, and developer. As an employer, Aster employs over 1200 people with an annual payroll of £32.5 million. As a landlord, Aster rents nearly 15,000 properties at below-market rates, saving at least £12 million per year in housing benefits. As a developer building 500 new homes per year, Aster supports over 750 local jobs and increases council tax revenues.
The document provides an overview of the Empty Homes Programme in the UK. Some key points:
- The number of empty homes has decreased by 14% between 2010-2012, with over 93,000 homes brought back into use since 2011.
- Challenges include the time it takes to establish projects, negotiate with owners, and carry out enforcement procedures. Successes include refurbishing homes to a high quality and innovative identification methods.
- There are opportunities to better measure wider social benefits like employment, training, and neighborhood renewal, and to promote best practices across the program. Identifying empty homes and engaging owners remains difficult due to limited resources and owners' reluctance.
The document discusses understanding and supporting local economies. It argues that the current economic system is unsustainable, unfair, and unstable. The ultimate goal should be maximizing well-being and living within environmental limits through economic activity at a scale that provides social and environmental benefits. It suggests focusing economic opportunities on reducing fossil fuel reliance, negative environmental impacts, and seeking positive outcomes. Measuring local spending multipliers can show how money circulates within a local economy and identify opportunities to better retain wealth locally through local spending and supply chains. Every way organizations spend money could potentially open local opportunities and generate positive local outcomes.
This document discusses the potential of open data for social housing organizations. It begins by explaining how social policy has historically focused on either individual households in poverty or deprived areas, but not both together. The document then outlines how housing organizations currently collect tenant and asset information, but often consider areas or households separately rather than together. It proposes taking an open data approach using open source software and open data sources to map tenants and understand their contexts. The key benefits outlined are gaining control of own data, better understanding social return on investment, relating tenant and area-based initiatives, making more evidence-based investment decisions, and early warnings of area problems - all at a lower cost through shared platforms and analysis.
Plus Dane considers local economic impact in its business strategies and investment decisions. It measures the impact of its decisions on enterprise, neighborhoods, and homes. For example, its investment in a youth program reduced nuisance behaviors and increased volunteerism. It also partners with organizations to pool funding and resources, creating jobs and attracting visitors to improve areas. Plus Dane tracks metrics like social return on investment to evidence how its decisions benefit communities.
- The document discusses the need for a sustainable and fit-for-purpose health system given challenges of increasing demand, limited supply and affordability issues.
- Health workforce planning is essential to address these challenges and ensure an adequate and appropriately skilled workforce now and in the future.
- Reforms are needed to configurations, models of care, funding and remuneration to improve sustainability, affordability and meet future needs.
London2012: Learnings on How Australians Consumed The GamesSteve Weaver
Australia’s Nine Entertainment Co’s Olympic Research Program tracked Olympic Games consumption, specifically the mobile second screen experience. The study took advantage of Australia’s high penetration of tablets and smart phones and surveying was done off the back of CMV-Nielsen’s behaviourally rich single-source product. This paper will highlight 8 key learning’s covering solus-screen and concurrent-screen consumption by day and device, and how the uses of smart phones for second screen tv content differ to that of tablets and laptops.
Connected Vitality and the Empowered ConsumerMark Scrimshire
My backup presentation at HealthCampRDU (#hcrdu) on the Empowered Consumer and Connected Vitality. Talking about PHRs in putting the patient and consumer at the center of Health Care.
NEHTA and Department of Health & Ageing hosted a Software Developer Conference in conjunction with CHIK's Health-e-Nation 2012 conference in March 2012.
Mal Thatcher of Mater Health Services took part in the “What’s in it for me?” panel describing the process and outcomes of Cairns health region study.
This slide presentation identifies the tutoring centers located on the PCC campus and the importance of integrating technology into the classroom curriculum.
Marketing to the Baby Boomer generation is going to become more and more prevalent starting now! Beginning January 1st, 2011 every single day more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65. That is going to keep happening every single day for the next 19 years.
On March 8, 2012 we welcomed Deborah Coleman, the general sales manager of the After 55 Housing & Resource Guide and SeniorOutlook.com, a division of For Rent Media Solutions. Deborah Coleman demonstrates a knack for marketing to the senior community and continues to be the driving force in creating and cultivating strong relationships within the senior industry.
Deborah has served as director on the SEFAA board for several years as well as the associate vice president of the Florida Apartment Association Board for two years, co-chairing their annual Educational Conference. She has a keen understanding of the senior market and continues to provide complete and cost-effective marketing marketing solutions for the aging community.
Informed Actions presentation [Future Assisted Living Technology]HACThousing
Informed Actions' presentation, shown at HACT's session on the Future of Assisted Living Technology, at the CIH Housing 2018 conference on 27 June 2018
The document outlines Bolton at Home's Percent for Art program, which was established in 1997 to maximize the benefits of regeneration through creative arts projects. It discusses the early years of the program and what was learned. Percent for Art today focuses on increasing arts access and participation to improve quality of life, develop strong communities, and deliver quality arts services that meet customer needs and contribute to neighborhood regeneration. In its first 10 years, the program supported over 150 projects costing nearly £1 million, leveraged over £1.2 million in additional funds, commissioned over 100 artists, and engaged more than 8,000 customers.
Cultural Commissioning Programme, Lucie StephensHACThousing
This document introduces the Cultural Commissioning Programme, which aims to encourage partnerships between arts/cultural organizations and public sector commissioners. It shares recent research on outcomes delivered by cultural interventions and examples of how they could support housing associations. A heat map shows who benefits (e.g. children, older adults) and areas of focus (e.g. mental health, education). An evaluation of a music-based program in Kent found positive outcomes. Opportunities for cultural programs are discussed, such as supporting independent older adults and social prescribing. Exercises are outlined to identify community challenges and plan next steps to address one issue.
The New Charter Group, New Charter Academy, and Royal Exchange Theatre Partnership Programme from 2012-2015 aimed to create sustainable cultural change in the neighborhood by building bridges between the academy and community, fostering a stronger sense of community, raising residents' aspirations and self-esteem, and reducing social exclusion. The partnership elements included creating an evaluation framework, appointing a project manager and community arts workers, consultation, theatre visits, and varied arts-based projects like "Welcome To Our Space," "Our Pals," "How Does Your Garden Grow?," a work week, and "Everyday Heroes."
Impact of EHCGP - Five Lamps - Graeme Oram HACThousing
This document summarizes renovation work done on Chapel Street in Evenwood, County Durham. Several properties on the street had been empty for over 5 years and were in disrepair. Through funding from the Empty Homes Community Grants Programme, Five Lamps renovated 7 homes on the street, bringing them back into use. This revived the community on the street and improved neighborhood conditions, as the street had been plagued by anti-social behavior due to the number of vacant homes. The funding was critical to enabling the rehabilitation of the homes and community on Chapel Street.
Impact of EHCGP - Veronica Harnett - R&C MindHACThousing
This document summarizes how a mental health organization used funding from the EPCGP program to purchase housing and provide homes for vulnerable individuals with mental health issues. It describes the stories of Sue and Ron who benefited from stable housing. The organization faced challenges but overcame concerns about risk and inexperience through leveraging partnerships and expertise. They purchased multiple properties and renovated them. The impact was positive, with service users reporting improved safety, warmth, acceptance and ability to contribute. The organization concluded that providing housing was worth the effort due to its life-changing impact.
Homelife provides affordable housing and employment opportunities through property refurbishment. It purchases empty properties, refurbishes them through its social enterprise TCUK Property Services, and rents the homes to people in need. TCUK Property Services employs former clients as apprentices to gain construction skills. The project aims to own 125 properties by 2017, generating rental income while providing housing and jobs. It has been successful in meeting funding targets, maintaining properties, and supporting tenants and trainees.
PROBE (HULL) Ltd is a social enterprise established in 1997 to help build prosperous neighborhoods in Hull through employment opportunities, training, business startups, home security, and youth programs. Since 2012, it has focused on refurbishing empty homes through funding secured for 18 homes in Round 1 and 23 homes and apartments in Round 2, including converting a former public house called Lion House into apartments. Lion House had been empty over 10 years and was refurbished over 14 weeks, with the apartments now all occupied by tenants in need of social housing.
The document discusses regeneration plans for the city centre and accessing funding for housing projects. It was presented by Peter McGurn from the Goodwin Development Trust. The trust is seeking funding to support housing redevelopment plans in the city centre area.
The document outlines funding sources totaling £954,857 that were used to refurbish 38 houses and 10 flats that had been empty for over 200 years in total, housing over 100 people. It notes that 130 volunteers including 55 ex-offenders worked on the project, with 34 volunteers going into employment and 5 receiving apprenticeships after. The funding was used to turn long-empty homes into places for people to live while providing opportunities for volunteers.
The document discusses the challenges of working with community organizations to address empty homes in Hull, England. It outlines major challenges like negative equity, mortgage company refusals to lease empty homes, and low rental returns. It then discusses the council's role in coordinating funding, sharing data and approaches, and tackling blockages. Through partnerships, the program has resulted in 570 affordable homes built, area improvements, and wider community benefits, but more work remains to be done.
This document is a quiz about elements of Habitat for Humanity's work transforming unused homes into affordable housing. It lists images and information about different homes and projects Habitat for Humanity has completed, and asks the participant to identify the odd one out and explain why. The correct answer wins a small prize. It also provides a brief summary of Habitat for Humanity's program details like the amounts invested, number of homes and bedrooms created, and people housed.
Stephen Hetherington Methodist Action North WestHACThousing
The document summarizes Methodist Action North West's work growing a social lettings agency. It provides housing and support services to help homeless and vulnerable people. Through its Empty Homes Programme, funded by grants totaling £1.25 million, it restored over 100 empty properties. This provided affordable housing for at least 200 people and brought private investment to the local economy. The program was a success due to collaborating with local partners and empowering communities with local knowledge.
This document discusses funding for the EHCGP in London to lease and repair 9 flats with 18 bedrooms and purchase and repair 2 houses with 8 bedrooms. It also notes tentative observations about working in London, including building relationships with property owners, ensuring projects are financially viable, keeping procedures simple, and gaining support from local authorities.
- The document discusses the need for a sustainable and fit-for-purpose health system given challenges of increasing demand, limited supply and affordability issues.
- Health workforce planning is essential to address these challenges and ensure an adequate and appropriately skilled workforce now and in the future.
- Reforms are needed to configurations, models of care, funding and remuneration to improve sustainability, affordability and meet future needs.
London2012: Learnings on How Australians Consumed The GamesSteve Weaver
Australia’s Nine Entertainment Co’s Olympic Research Program tracked Olympic Games consumption, specifically the mobile second screen experience. The study took advantage of Australia’s high penetration of tablets and smart phones and surveying was done off the back of CMV-Nielsen’s behaviourally rich single-source product. This paper will highlight 8 key learning’s covering solus-screen and concurrent-screen consumption by day and device, and how the uses of smart phones for second screen tv content differ to that of tablets and laptops.
Connected Vitality and the Empowered ConsumerMark Scrimshire
My backup presentation at HealthCampRDU (#hcrdu) on the Empowered Consumer and Connected Vitality. Talking about PHRs in putting the patient and consumer at the center of Health Care.
NEHTA and Department of Health & Ageing hosted a Software Developer Conference in conjunction with CHIK's Health-e-Nation 2012 conference in March 2012.
Mal Thatcher of Mater Health Services took part in the “What’s in it for me?” panel describing the process and outcomes of Cairns health region study.
This slide presentation identifies the tutoring centers located on the PCC campus and the importance of integrating technology into the classroom curriculum.
Marketing to the Baby Boomer generation is going to become more and more prevalent starting now! Beginning January 1st, 2011 every single day more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65. That is going to keep happening every single day for the next 19 years.
On March 8, 2012 we welcomed Deborah Coleman, the general sales manager of the After 55 Housing & Resource Guide and SeniorOutlook.com, a division of For Rent Media Solutions. Deborah Coleman demonstrates a knack for marketing to the senior community and continues to be the driving force in creating and cultivating strong relationships within the senior industry.
Deborah has served as director on the SEFAA board for several years as well as the associate vice president of the Florida Apartment Association Board for two years, co-chairing their annual Educational Conference. She has a keen understanding of the senior market and continues to provide complete and cost-effective marketing marketing solutions for the aging community.
Informed Actions presentation [Future Assisted Living Technology]HACThousing
Informed Actions' presentation, shown at HACT's session on the Future of Assisted Living Technology, at the CIH Housing 2018 conference on 27 June 2018
The document outlines Bolton at Home's Percent for Art program, which was established in 1997 to maximize the benefits of regeneration through creative arts projects. It discusses the early years of the program and what was learned. Percent for Art today focuses on increasing arts access and participation to improve quality of life, develop strong communities, and deliver quality arts services that meet customer needs and contribute to neighborhood regeneration. In its first 10 years, the program supported over 150 projects costing nearly £1 million, leveraged over £1.2 million in additional funds, commissioned over 100 artists, and engaged more than 8,000 customers.
Cultural Commissioning Programme, Lucie StephensHACThousing
This document introduces the Cultural Commissioning Programme, which aims to encourage partnerships between arts/cultural organizations and public sector commissioners. It shares recent research on outcomes delivered by cultural interventions and examples of how they could support housing associations. A heat map shows who benefits (e.g. children, older adults) and areas of focus (e.g. mental health, education). An evaluation of a music-based program in Kent found positive outcomes. Opportunities for cultural programs are discussed, such as supporting independent older adults and social prescribing. Exercises are outlined to identify community challenges and plan next steps to address one issue.
The New Charter Group, New Charter Academy, and Royal Exchange Theatre Partnership Programme from 2012-2015 aimed to create sustainable cultural change in the neighborhood by building bridges between the academy and community, fostering a stronger sense of community, raising residents' aspirations and self-esteem, and reducing social exclusion. The partnership elements included creating an evaluation framework, appointing a project manager and community arts workers, consultation, theatre visits, and varied arts-based projects like "Welcome To Our Space," "Our Pals," "How Does Your Garden Grow?," a work week, and "Everyday Heroes."
Impact of EHCGP - Five Lamps - Graeme Oram HACThousing
This document summarizes renovation work done on Chapel Street in Evenwood, County Durham. Several properties on the street had been empty for over 5 years and were in disrepair. Through funding from the Empty Homes Community Grants Programme, Five Lamps renovated 7 homes on the street, bringing them back into use. This revived the community on the street and improved neighborhood conditions, as the street had been plagued by anti-social behavior due to the number of vacant homes. The funding was critical to enabling the rehabilitation of the homes and community on Chapel Street.
Impact of EHCGP - Veronica Harnett - R&C MindHACThousing
This document summarizes how a mental health organization used funding from the EPCGP program to purchase housing and provide homes for vulnerable individuals with mental health issues. It describes the stories of Sue and Ron who benefited from stable housing. The organization faced challenges but overcame concerns about risk and inexperience through leveraging partnerships and expertise. They purchased multiple properties and renovated them. The impact was positive, with service users reporting improved safety, warmth, acceptance and ability to contribute. The organization concluded that providing housing was worth the effort due to its life-changing impact.
Homelife provides affordable housing and employment opportunities through property refurbishment. It purchases empty properties, refurbishes them through its social enterprise TCUK Property Services, and rents the homes to people in need. TCUK Property Services employs former clients as apprentices to gain construction skills. The project aims to own 125 properties by 2017, generating rental income while providing housing and jobs. It has been successful in meeting funding targets, maintaining properties, and supporting tenants and trainees.
PROBE (HULL) Ltd is a social enterprise established in 1997 to help build prosperous neighborhoods in Hull through employment opportunities, training, business startups, home security, and youth programs. Since 2012, it has focused on refurbishing empty homes through funding secured for 18 homes in Round 1 and 23 homes and apartments in Round 2, including converting a former public house called Lion House into apartments. Lion House had been empty over 10 years and was refurbished over 14 weeks, with the apartments now all occupied by tenants in need of social housing.
The document discusses regeneration plans for the city centre and accessing funding for housing projects. It was presented by Peter McGurn from the Goodwin Development Trust. The trust is seeking funding to support housing redevelopment plans in the city centre area.
The document outlines funding sources totaling £954,857 that were used to refurbish 38 houses and 10 flats that had been empty for over 200 years in total, housing over 100 people. It notes that 130 volunteers including 55 ex-offenders worked on the project, with 34 volunteers going into employment and 5 receiving apprenticeships after. The funding was used to turn long-empty homes into places for people to live while providing opportunities for volunteers.
The document discusses the challenges of working with community organizations to address empty homes in Hull, England. It outlines major challenges like negative equity, mortgage company refusals to lease empty homes, and low rental returns. It then discusses the council's role in coordinating funding, sharing data and approaches, and tackling blockages. Through partnerships, the program has resulted in 570 affordable homes built, area improvements, and wider community benefits, but more work remains to be done.
This document is a quiz about elements of Habitat for Humanity's work transforming unused homes into affordable housing. It lists images and information about different homes and projects Habitat for Humanity has completed, and asks the participant to identify the odd one out and explain why. The correct answer wins a small prize. It also provides a brief summary of Habitat for Humanity's program details like the amounts invested, number of homes and bedrooms created, and people housed.
Stephen Hetherington Methodist Action North WestHACThousing
The document summarizes Methodist Action North West's work growing a social lettings agency. It provides housing and support services to help homeless and vulnerable people. Through its Empty Homes Programme, funded by grants totaling £1.25 million, it restored over 100 empty properties. This provided affordable housing for at least 200 people and brought private investment to the local economy. The program was a success due to collaborating with local partners and empowering communities with local knowledge.
This document discusses funding for the EHCGP in London to lease and repair 9 flats with 18 bedrooms and purchase and repair 2 houses with 8 bedrooms. It also notes tentative observations about working in London, including building relationships with property owners, ensuring projects are financially viable, keeping procedures simple, and gaining support from local authorities.
Somerset Care & Repair has been successful in securing £1.46M in funding to work on housing projects in South Somerset and Mendip districts. As the director, Kevin Lake oversees projects such as converting an empty superintendent's house into flats and renovating neglected properties like Fir Tree Cottage and Milford Inn. While navigating challenges with local authorities over costs and delays, the organization has brought 32 empty homes back into use to house those in greatest need. Its success has led to further funding to expand their work to other areas.
Canopy Housing provides affordable housing and support services to help individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Steve Hoey is the Director of Canopy Housing and may be contacted via email at steve@canopyhousing.org or on Twitter at @steve_hoey regarding the organization's mission to address homelessness in the community.
The document describes a partnership project between Ambition, a UK youth charity, Cospa, and Granby4Streets CLT to refurbish 5 empty properties in Liverpool and provide accredited work experience and training to local young people. The project aims to improve the skills, employment prospects, and well-being of local youth while refurbishing affordable housing. The project is expected to have positive impacts for the young people, community, and local area by bringing investment and opportunity.
Ian Cockerill Community Campus - Impact of EHCGPHACThousing
Community Campus is a non-profit housing organization established in 1987 in response to the housing crisis facing young people. Through securing empty and abandoned properties and renovating them, they aim to reduce homelessness, help people achieve their potential, and strengthen local communities. Recently, they secured over £1.2 million in funding to renovate 49 bedrooms and provide housing. This created jobs like 23 apprenticeships and improved life chances for residents by providing access to housing, qualifications, and better neighborhoods. The organization has seen growth in tenants housed and income generated over recent years which allows them to continue their work of doing more than just providing a roof.
1. GIS at Places for People
Gina Tomlinson
Group Research Manager
2. Introduction
• Quick introduction – Places for People and Research & Planning Team
• Places for People’s GIS timeline….ups and downs!
• GIS to inform community investment work
• The future
3. Places for People
• Four main companies:
- PFP Homes
- PFP Individual Support
- Cotman Housing
- Castle Rock Edinvar
• Approximately 63,000 properties
• From Stirling to Isle of Wight
• Concentrated in North West, West
Yorkshire and North East.
5. GIS Timeline
• Late 2006/07 – bought GIS.
• Cadcorp – Map Modeller
• 3rd party to administrate & develop Intranet GIS
• GIS Analyst started in May 2008.
• Mainly research purposes
• Feb 2009 – took down Intranet GIS
• December 2009 – reached a sticking point – new business plan!
• April 2010 – bought Cadcorp GeognoSIS Editor for the Intranet.
• Allowed some people access as test users
• September 2010 – became friends with IT!
• February 2011 – GeognoSIS launched companywide
• April 2012 – Grounds maintenance mapping project commenced
9. Community Investment
• Our approach to Corporate Responsibility
•Everything we do is ethical and responsible
•We aim to protect the environment
•We invest in products and services that help people prosper
•Awards
•BITC Corporate Responsibility Platinum
• One of the most responsible businesses in the UK
•BITC Big Tick
• Awarded for our innovative approach to neighbourhood planning
• Recognises excellence in community investment
10. AKABA
“If we could find out the level of worklessness amongst people with mental health issues in the
African and African Caribbean communities that would be perfect!”
11. CESP Funding
• Funding reducing Carbon Emissions and alleviating Fuel Poverty
• Pay for double glazing, loft insulation, cavity wall, gas fires etc
• Combined CESP data with existing asset data to assess where funding could be applied for.
12. Stock Organisation - Creating Neighbourhoods
Scheme codes to neighbourhoods • 591 defined neighbourhoods
covering ~56,000 stock
• ‘virtual neighbourhoods’
covering the rest
13. Neighbourhood Planning
• Neighbourhood planning areas are designed to take a holistic approach to improving
neighbourhoods rather than just the built environment.
• Need to place our small neighbourhoods in context
• Used to highlight areas of major differences and think about why
Age Profile in Whinfield
16.0%
14.0%
12.0%
10.0%
8.0%
6.0%
4.0%
2.0%
0.0%
90 and over
0 to 4
5 to 9
10 to 14
15 to 19
25 to 29
35 to 39
45 to 49
50 to 54
55 to 59
60 to 64
70 to 74
80 to 84
20 to 24
30 to 34
65 to 69
75 to 79
85 to 89
40 to 44
Whinfield Darlington 003A All Darlington
14. Stock Rationalisation – Strategic Uses
• Nearest Neighbour
• Number of other
properties within
• Distance to major office
• Added with long term
void info
• Other financial info
• ‘Competitor’ maps for
mergers, acquisitions,
stock swaps etc
18. Getting to grips with the Open Data revolution
• GIS budget more than halved since 2009/10
•Working with partners such as Emapsite to explore the raft of freely available data
out there
•Danger of data overload
•Need to think about the issue you are trying to tackle and what data you need
rather than “I have this data now what can I do with it?”
•Need to understand the data available
•Role of GIS & Information Officer is to interpret and ‘add value’ to the data freely
available
19. Lessons Learnt
• Have a reason for buying GIS and doing GIS projects
•Learn from others – GI4Housing, Ordnance Survey Housing Case Studies
• GIS needs looking after, it won’t run itself
• Dedicated role
• Support from IT
•Pitfalls of using consultants
• Keep it simple!
20. The Future for GIS at Places for People
• 26.11.12 – New GIS & Information Officer started
•Priorities: -
•Grounds maintenance project
•E-services – possibly online allocations with mapping front end
•Expansion of the functionality of the intranet GIS
•Expansion of GIS user base
Editor's Notes
Places for People – better known to some as North British Housing Property management, development and regeneration company Traditional social housing management plus new products and services aimed at the private market – homecare, gas servicing Recent acquisition of Touchstone – managers of over 20,000 private rented homes across the UK
Relatively small team Now comes under the relative new Group Director Business Development Close relationships with other central functions – IM&T, Marketing and Comms, Business Excellence Martyn new in post – started yesterday!!
A long and bumpy road Highlights some of the perils of: - Not really understanding why you want a GIS and what you are going to use it for Using external consultants
Intranet GIS Welcome page designed by our in-house webteam Map library – frequently requested maps in PDF format e.g. office locations, stock maps etc Documentation – ‘How To’ guides e.g. how to search for a property, how to print a map, how to add a boundary line Request a map – links to a standard form which people fill in if they want to request a bespoke map. Form is emailed through to IM&T service desk then sent through to GIS & Information Officer for actioning. Ensures that usage is tracked and monitored. Mapping system – Cadcorp Geognosis Layers of information Limited functionality – search, zoom, edit, print
Developing a ‘pyramid’ of GIS users Expert Users – myself and Martyn. Full access to intranet GIS and use of desktop licence. Responsible for: - (1) Promoting GIS across the business Developing and maintaining the intranet GIS Training Purchasing external data and managing licences Super Users – other members of R&P plus other identified heavy users of the intranet GIS: - Use of a desktop licence for more sophisticated analyses Users – all staff members:- Access to intranet GIS Probably currently between 50 and 100 regular users Looking to increase usage by developing functionality
Examples of the data we currently use – geographical and statistical
Proud of our achievements From bronze to platinum in 4 years This is our core business. It’s what we’re all about.
Examples of using GIS for community investment Akaba Project based in London. Providing support services to people from the African/Afro Caribbean communities with mental health problems. Wanted to target services on the people who needed them most.
CESP – Community Energy Saving Programme Department of Energy & Climate Change Targets households across GB in areas of low income to improve energy efficiency standards and reduce fuel bills Programme delivered through the development of community based partnerships
In the past hierarchy was properties – schemes – patches – areas – regions But scheme code really didn’t mean anything. An estate which had been developed over 4 phases could have 4 scheme codes. Mortgage rescue or other properties acquired on an ad hoc basis would be lumped under one scheme code e.g. Blackburn rehabs Partly in response to the localism agenda and partly in response to a realisation that what we had wasn’t work a new hierarchy was developed with the inclusion of a Neighbourhood level. GIS used to define new neighbourhood boundaries
Following that came neighbourhood planning, a neighbourhood dashboard and neighbourhood assessment. Again the GIS was used to set the neighbourhoods in context of the wider area. Looking at things like the Index of Deprivation, benefits claimants etc
Use GIS to identify properties which are remote and which may be better served by being managed by another registered provider Use data available from the HCA and the Statistical Data Returns to identify who may be in the market for a stock swap or to assess M&A opportunities
Previously any land registry title plans we had were paper based Scattered amongst various offices/archive facilities No central register Purchased polygon plus data from Land Reg and added as layer to intranet GIS Discovered a number of unregistered titles which legal team are currently working through but still a huge improvement on what we had/didn’t have previously Able to identify boundaries of our ownership Able to identify pieces of land which we owned but hadn’t developed. Some which we could sell on or develop ourselves. Some ‘ransom’ strips
Particularly useful when doing our Green Spaces Project Received £15.6m Big Lottery Fund Grant to transform 80 acres of community land in 84 areas Successfully delivered and recently received another £1m grant
Using GIS to map the results of customer consultations. This was around closing a number of offices in the SE