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Contents Background 3 The Housing Selection Scheme 3 Purpose and Scope of the Consultation 4 Bedrooms - Housing Benefit Occupancy Rules 5 Key Proposals 7 Ensuring New Tenants are not Under-Occupying 7 Minimum Bedroom Requirements 7 Overcrowding Rules 11 Interim Offers Policy 11 Policy Succession and Assignment 11 Supporting Existing Tenants 12 Under-Occupation Points 13 Allocations to Transfers 14 Access to the Transfer List/Consent to a Mutual Exchange 14 Mobility and Mutual Exchange Schemes 15 Creation of Joint Tenancies 15 Impact on Local Lettings Plans 15 Equality 17 Rural Proofing 18 Summary of Consultation Questions 19 How to Respond 21 Next Steps 22 Proposals for Changes to the Housing Selection Scheme 2
Background The Housing Selection Scheme The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order, 1981 (Article 22) provides the statutory framework for the Housing Selection Scheme. The Housing Executive must submit a scheme for determining the order of allocation of Housing Executive tenancies. Any amendments to the statutory scheme must be submitted to the Department for Social Development for approval. In 2000 the Housing Executive and Registered Housing Associations in Northern Ireland, having established a Common Waiting List for all social housing in Northern Ireland, agreed to participate in a Common Selection Scheme and since then the Housing Executive’s Housing Selection Scheme has been used as the basis on which all social housing is allocated in Northern Ireland, whether owned and managed by the Housing Executive or any of the registered Housing Associations. The Housing Selection Scheme is first and foremost a tool for assessing and ranking the need of individual households who apply for social housing in Northern Ireland and allocating homes on the basis of that assessed need and ranking. In addition, tenants who wish to transfer within their landlord’s stock or across the pool of social housing are also assessed and ranked as applicants under the rules of the Housing Selection Scheme. The Scheme provides for the award of points to applicants for housing need factors such as insecurity of tenure, housing conditions, and health/social well-being, with the overall accumulation of points determining the position and ranking of an applicant on the waiting list. A full copy of the current rules of the Housing Selection Scheme can be found on the Housing Executive’s website at: http://www.nihe.gov.uk/housing_selection_scheme_rules.pdf Proposals for Changes to the Housing Selection Scheme 3
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