Delivering Great Homes for Greater Manchester GM APPG

1. Delivering Great Homes for Greater ManchesterGM APPG Paul Dennett Salford City Mayor Greater Manchester Combined Authority Portfolio Lead for Housing, Homelessness and Infrastructure

2. Challenge: consistent under-delivery of homes Local Housing Need Source: MHCLG Live Tables 122 and 1008C

3. Challenge: 85,000 households on the housing register Source: Local Authority Housing Statistics dataset, England 2016-17: Section C – Allocations

4. Challenge: 30,000 households in reasonable preference Source: GM SHMA 2018

5. Challenge: growing private rented sector Source: Census 1981-2011

6. Challenge: rough sleeping Source: MHCLG Rough Sleeping Statistics 2017

7. Housing White Paper • Fixing Our Broken Housing Market • Planning for the right homes in the right places • Building homes faster • Diversifying the market • Increasing housing delivery from social landlords

8. Devo-MancFirst Deal announced November 2014 • Set out new powers for the GMCA on condition of agreeing to an elected mayor who will also fulfil the role of the Police and Crime Commissioner • Powers cover transport, business support, employment and skills support, spatial planning, housing investment, earn-back and governance reforms

9. Economic development and regeneration powers • Duty to prepare and publish a GM spatial development strategy • Provide, or facilitate the provision of housing and infrastructure • Develop and regenerate land • Acquire land, compulsorily or by agreement • Designate areas of land as mayoral development areas leading to the establishment of mayoral development corporations • Additional powers in relation to skills, adult education and training

10. Finance and investment powers • Control of “earn-back” monies (£30 million pa) • Control of Housing Investment Fund • £300 million Housing Fund, administered by GMCA • Ten-year committed local government funding • Traditional development finance to support housing growth across Greater Manchester • Set up to encourage, accelerate and unlock residential housing schemes • Monies recycled critical to building affordable housing

11. Additional Mayoral ‘soft powers’ • Soft powers of the Mayor are arguably the most important: • Influencing, negotiating powers • ‘Ear’ of government and key contacts • Relationships with stakeholders • Public persona – media interest, both local and national profile • Network of City Mayors (national and international) - joint lobbying, strength of voice and influence

12. Greater Manchester Strategy

13. Priority 6: Safe, decent and affordable housing • Tackling rough sleeping and reducing homelessness • Providing neighbourhoods of choice for residents • Strategic approach to improving the quality, connectivity and sustainability of our neighbourhoods through the GM Spatial Framework • Innovative approaches to housing development: • Delivering the homes we need through existing Government programmes and the GM Housing Investment Fund • Agreeing a Housing Package with Government, to unlock additional housing delivery through a place-based programme approach • Ensuring a pipeline of housing land through GM Spatial Framework and One Public Estate

14. What are we doing…Greater Manchester Spatial Framework • Identifying the level and type of housing and economic growth we should be planning for • Ensuring we have an appropriate supply of land to meet this need • It will help us to: • Deliver the right homes in the right places • take a ‘strategic view’ on the big issues, greenbelt, flood risk • plan for infrastructure collectively and more effectively • protect our most valuable land and assets • Household projections due in September and will update our Local Housing Need • Next consultation planned for October

15. What are we doing…Greater Manchester Housing Package • GM Housing Package announced by Government in March 2018 • Ensures that Greater Manchester will be able to capitalise on opportunities presented by large scale transport investment • Strengthens collaborative working with Homes England and MHCLG to help develop a secure pipeline of housing development • Better coordination in planning, decision-making and delivery of housing across Greater Manchester to maximise value and benefits from investment • New housing in strategically planned locations that integrate housing and transport infrastructure provision • Growing good quality stock, with high levels of accessibility to jobs and training

16. What are we doing…Greater Manchester Housing Package • Provides Land Fund of £50m to support remediation of brownfield land for housing • Up to £8m in capacity funding to build a team to support districts’ work on bringing housing developments forward • Secured £70m Marginal Viability Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) • Four HIF Forward Funding bids through to the next stage – Salford, Manchester, Bolton/Wigan and Stockport – potentially £240m • A Land & Infrastructure Commission to coordinate our work with Government and the wider public sector on housing delivery and public land • Flexibility on recycling to deliver more with the GM Housing Investment Loan Fund • Negotiating the details of the Housing Package delivery plan with MHCLG to take this forward

17. What are we doing…Housing Investment Fund • To date the Housing Investment Fund has committed over £414m • Supporting delivery of more than 5,500 homes across Greater Manchester • The Fund reached the £300m milestone after two-and-a-half years, and is utilising recycled funds • It is continuing to invest in more homes across Greater Manchester

18. What are we doing…Homelessness • Secured £3.8m for GM Homelessness Prevention Trailblazer Programme • Secured £1.8m GM Social Impact Bond to support entrenched rough sleepers • Developing an £8m GM Housing First Programme • Adopted a 3-year Strategy to end the need for rough sleeping by 2020 • Updated Hospital Discharge Protocols with commitment to no discharge to the street • Developed a GM Homelessness Action Network of stakeholders and providers across GM, featuring dedicated Business and Faith Networks • Delivered the first consistent GM-wide Cold Weather Provision in 2017/18 • Developing a more consistent and common approach to the Homelessness Reduction Act across GM

19. Priority 6 – Safe, decent and affordable housing Tracking our progress GMS targets By 2020, more than 10,000 net additional dwellings will be built per annum, up from 6,190 in 2015/16 End rough sleeping by 2020, from an estimated 189 rough sleepers in 2016 R G An estimated 268 rough sleepers in GM in 2017, or 0.23 per 1,000 households 7,892 net new additional dwellings in GM in 2016/17 940 dwellings ahead of the target trajectory Above the England average of 0.20 per 1,000 households, with individual districts significantly above Afurther 1,706new dwellings compared to 2015-16 Up from 189in 2016 Supporting indicators In 2015/16, 0.9% of GM housing stock (11,150 properties) had been empty for over 6 months, compared to 0.8% for England as a whole A decrease of 723 properties since 2014/15 In 2016, 93.5%of GM residents stated that they “liked the neighbourhood” they live in, compared to 94.9% nationally, an increase of 1.0 percentage point from 2013 In 2017, the ratio of lower quartile house prices to median incomes in GM was 4.2, compared to the England average of 5.0 Affordability in GM declined slightly compared to 2016, when the ratio was 4.0 In Q3 2017, positive action was successful in preventing or relieving homelessness in 4,685cases, a rate of 3.9per 1,000 households, compared to 2.2 for England as a whole Up on the previous year by 483 cases In November 2017, there were 240,300 people in receipt of housing benefit or households in receipt of the housing element of Universal Credit, a rate of 86 per 1,000 of the population, compared to 71.6nationally. The gap between GM and the national average closed by 6% when compared to November 2016 A [ This indicator is drawn from responses to Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. Scoping is underway surrounding the possibility of gathering more timely data using responses to a bespoke GM survey, which would incorporate recognised language from the LGA in relation to resident’s opinions of their local area ] G A G R

20. What more do we need to deliver quality homes at scale? • Partnership with Homes England • Flexibility on the Housing Delivery Test • GM setting own approach to affordability • Power to develop an overarching Homelessness Strategy • Pooled homelessness funding • Control of setting Local Housing Allowance levels