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Housing Strategy Documents –Consultation Summary of Written CommentsPage 476Housing StrategyConsulteeMayor of London(4 July <strong>2012</strong> Meeting –Meeting Note 30 July<strong>2012</strong>)Housing AssociationForum(6 July <strong>2012</strong> Meeting)LBHFConsideration ofrecent CLG Guidance/ ProposalsCommentGLA broadly content with the draft strategy. Queried how home ownership could be increased in a sustainable wayand noted that the Council’s promoted product Discount Market Sale is popular. GLA interested in the Council’ssupport for the ‘slivers of equity’ model and were keen to work with H&F to develop this further.General Comments Documents were too prescriptive about what the council intended to and how they intendedpartners to work with themAllocations process potentially more time-consuming; Joint working with housing associations needs to betterpromoted; Documents do not identify what housing associations were doing already; On fixed term tenancies,housing associations have issues around how their policies can be aligned with different local housing authoritypolicies. Related to this was how internal procedures can be aligned also; Large and small housing associationsmay have different perspectives on how local authority policies can be accommodated; Issue of proportionality: thespecific changes proposed need to be worth the benefits that are being sought.Draft Housing StrategyA more general and significant question related to what the offer from LBHF is to housing associations. HAs are in agood position to deliver new affordable housing. It’s an opportunity to review what has happened in the recent pastand what can be improved. HAs want a new opportunity to work with the Council in what is a rapidly changingenvironment. There are many opportunities available in LBHF and HAs wanted a fair chance at taking them.HAs wish to have more opportunities to develop and want to be seen as key partners to develop a range ofaffordable housing types.Agreed that a greater focus is needed on partnership working in the document.Private Sector Renewal – Jane Rayner. Tracts need to be included to reflect statutory strategy and role.Pay to Stay; homelessness order1

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