Older People's Strategy - Newcastle City Council

89Decent, warm homesAll older people aspire to live in a decent, warm home.31% of pensioner households rent from Your Homes Newcastle,7% from other registered social landlords and 6% from privatelandlords (see Annex 7, Note 17). Your Homes Newcastleis already undertaking substantial refurbishment of existingcouncil stock, and other Registered Social Landlords areworking towards a target of bringing homes up to decenthomes standard by 2010.61% of pensioner households are homeowners in the city(see Annex 7, Note 17). A high proportion of older householdsare on a lower income (see Annex 7, Note 18) and requiregood advice and information as well as financial assistanceif they need to make repairs or adaptations to their homes.In areas of private housing at risk of decline, NeighbourhoodRenewal Assessments are used to appraise the effectivenessof different actions to support long-term sustainability. Actionto improve the stock includes external and environmental workto groups of houses. A programme of such improvements isunderway in areas of older private stock, and being consideredfor other areas. These group repairs particularly benefit themany older people living in unmodernised and sometimespoorly maintained private rented accommodation.In relation to individual properties, Anchor Staying Put providesa range of services to help older homeowners with anythingfrom major adaptations to minor repairs. They also manage theTrades Register – a list of reliable, vetted tradespeople. AnchorStaying Put is currently working with Newcastle City Council