community-led housing and the role of housing associations a hact learning event
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Community-Led Housing and the Role of Housing Associations A HACT Learning Event. Sally Thomas Head of Community Investment. May 2014. North Star Housing Group. Parent company for Endeavour Housing Association and Teesdale Housing Association 3,200 homes in urban Teesside and rural Teesdale - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Community-Led Housing and the Community-Led Housing and the Role of Housing AssociationsRole of Housing Associations
A HACT Learning Event A HACT Learning Event
Sally ThomasHead of Community Investment May 2014
North Star Housing GroupNorth Star Housing Group
• Parent company for Endeavour Housing Association and Teesdale Housing Association
• 3,200 homes in urban Teesside and rural Teesdale
• 630 supported housing units for a wide range of needs
• A two-year programme of organisational development and cultural consolidation
• Distributed leadership, being local, co-creation
• Strong Community Investment activity and ethos
• Think big, act small, start now ……
Strengthening communitiesStrengthening communities
• Traditional community relationships focus on needs and problems; can reinforce a dependency culture
• Need to focus on community strengths: the capacities, skills, intelligence and expertise of people living in neighbourhoods
• A relationship-driven, rather than transaction-driven, approach
Community-Led Housing ProjectsCommunity-Led Housing Projects
• Housing Co-ops
Langridge and Norton Grange – 92 units - development and management / repairs
• Community-based housing
Darlington HA, 4 Quaker Societies / charitable trusts – 265 units – management / repairs
• Community-owned housing
Middlesbrough CLT – 5 units - management / repairs
• Empty Homes Programme
Five Lamps – 4 units - management / repairs
ElementsElements• Agreements and contracts – tailored templates
• Funding – sew and grow, earned income
• Services – enabling, development, management, maintenance
• Locking in community interest – asset development
• Relationships – long-term
Gresham, Middlesborough Gresham, Middlesborough
Study the past if you would Study the past if you would define the futuredefine the future
• Post-industrial decline
• Housing Market Renewal
• Controversy and confrontation
• Strong social networks / value base
It takes a community to make a It takes a community to make a community……community……
• From Communities Under Threat to
Community Land Trust
• Asset transfer of three houses for £3
• Local lettings at affordable rent
• Added values – social and economic• voluntary effort / sweat equity
• community construction team
• local spend / community-led regeneration
Alone we can do so little; together we Alone we can do so little; together we can do so muchcan do so much
• The residents of Gresham
• North Star Housing Group
• Middlesbrough Council
• Community Campus
• HCA, HACT, Isos, Jon Fitzmaurice
To lead the people; walk behind themTo lead the people; walk behind them
• Community leadership
• Relationships not transactions
• The collective economy / the social
community
• Letting go and giving up; small is beautiful
• Next steps: more EHs, new-build, Neighbourhood Planning,
Social Enterprises in Lettings and Repairs / Voids)
Successes and barriersSuccesses and barriers
• Shared purpose and ethos – mutual benefits
• Making unequal partnerships work; working with difference
• A geographical / neighbourhood / practical focus
• Community-led delivery model; a focus on assets
• Money – diverse and flexible, income streams
• Developing whole organisational understanding
• Institutional barriers