Safe Haven Project Private Sector Leasing

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Safe Haven ProjectPrivate Sector Leasing

• By
• Karen Langford
• Project Manager

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Aims

• To establish a model private sector leasing
  scheme
• To produce a toolkit of legal, financial,
  marketing and risk management materials allowing
  the project to be rolled out regionally and
  nationally
• The toolkit to be produced on a CD Rom
• To launch the Scheme at a Conference to be held
  in August/September 2007

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What is Private Sector Leasing?

• Partnership between the private sector, a housing
  association and the local authority.
• The owners of empty properties provide the homes,
  the housing association provides the housing
  management and takes care of dayto-day repairs
  and maintenance, and the local authority provides
  the tenants.

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What area will it cover?

• The following Council Districts
• Babergh
• Mid Suffolk
• Ipswich
• Suffolk Coastal
• Colchester
• Tendring
• Maldon
• Braintree

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Types of Accommodation

• Two Bedroom Houses
• Three Bedroom Houses
• Larger properties
• One Bedroom Flats
• Two Bedroom Flats
• Maisonettes

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Purpose of this evening

• To find out what you as a private landlord would
  like a housing association to offer you
• To tell us what you would consider doing to
  participate
• To help to design the process

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Things to consider

• Checks you would like us to make in considering
  whether your property is suitable for such a
  scheme
• What would you like to see in the lease terms
  conditions
• What would you expect to happen at the end of the
  lease?
• How would you expect the property to be managed?

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Things to consider (cont.)

• What lettings policy would you like to see?
• Thinking about repairs
• What constitutes an emergency?
• What is urgent how quickly should it be dealt
  with?
• What is non-urgent how quickly should it be
  dealt with?
• Who should deal with repairs?

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Summary

• We want to know
• What is most important to you
• What is least important to you

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Format for the Workshops

• Split into groups according to colour on your
  name tag
• Discuss the issues with a facilitator
• Comeback together to highlight the findings
• Close by 9.00pm

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Finally .

• Thank you for your interest
• Everyone here will be invited to the Conference
  to share in the findings
• Any questions?