The Housing Selection Scheme Consultation Paper - Northern ...
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Background<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Selection</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Housing</strong> (<strong>Northern</strong> Ireland) Order, 1981 (Article 22) provides the statutory<br />
framework for the <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Selection</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong>. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Housing</strong> Executive must<br />
submit a scheme for determining the order of allocation of <strong>Housing</strong> Executive<br />
tenancies. Any amendments to the statutory scheme must be submitted to the<br />
Department for Social Development for approval.<br />
In 2000 the <strong>Housing</strong> Executive and Registered <strong>Housing</strong> Associations in <strong>Northern</strong><br />
Ireland, having established a Common Waiting List for all social housing in<br />
<strong>Northern</strong> Ireland, agreed to participate in a Common <strong>Selection</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong> and<br />
since then the <strong>Housing</strong> Executive’s <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Selection</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong> has been used as<br />
the basis on which all social housing is allocated in <strong>Northern</strong> Ireland, whether<br />
owned and managed by the <strong>Housing</strong> Executive or any of the registered <strong>Housing</strong><br />
Associations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Selection</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong> is first and foremost a tool for assessing and<br />
ranking the need of individual households who apply for social housing in<br />
<strong>Northern</strong> Ireland and allocating homes on the basis of that assessed need and<br />
ranking. In addition, tenants who wish to transfer within their landlord’s stock or<br />
across the pool of social housing are also assessed and ranked as applicants<br />
under the rules of the <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Selection</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong>. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong> provides for the<br />
award of points to applicants for housing need factors such as insecurity of<br />
tenure, housing conditions, and health/social well-being, with the overall<br />
accumulation of points determining the position and ranking of an applicant on<br />
the waiting list.<br />
A full copy of the current rules of the <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Selection</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong> can be found on<br />
the <strong>Housing</strong> Executive’s website at:<br />
http://www.nihe.gov.uk/housing_selection_scheme_rules.pdf<br />
Proposals for Changes to the <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Selection</strong> <strong>Scheme</strong> 3