Overcrowding

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Overcrowding Under-occupation

• David Clayton
• National Overcrowding Coordinator
• Housing Management and Performance Division

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Introduction

• Levels of Overcrowding
• Action Plan and Pathfinders
• Collecting DATA
• Making better use of stock
• Overcrowded households

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Context Overcrowding in England

• England and regional estimates plus under
  occupiers

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Severe Overcrowding in the Social Rented Sector
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Action Plan Summary

• Published December 2007
• 15m investment over 3 years to reduce
  overcrowding
• Currently 54 Pathfinders
• Pathfinders to use resource to take strategic and
  proactive approach to tackling overcrowding

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Collecting DATA

• Do you know the numbers of overcrowded households
  in your stock?
• How severely overcrowded are these households?
• How many households are under-occupying?
• Understanding overcrowding can inform policy and
  initiatives

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Making better use of stock Allocations

• Does your allocations framework support tackling
  overcrowding?
• Do you give priority to severely overcrowded
  households?
• Do you give priority to under-occupiers?
• Can you create chain lets?
• Allocations are key to tackling overcrowding and
  underoccupation

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Making better use of stock Under-occupation

• Do you enable under-occupiers to move?
• Do you have a scheme in place?
• Money, support or both?
• How do you identify under-occupiers?
• People, their needs and not

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Tackling OvercrowdingHousing Options

• Do you visit overcrowded households?
• What options do overcrowded tenants have?
• Do you do a reality check?
• How about non-dependent adults a home?
• Can tenants access the private sector?

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What support can we offer?

• National Overcrowding
• Coordinator
• Regional Resource
• Teams
• Policy team at CLG
• Self Assessment Toolkit
• Advice notes

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Contacts

• Nicki Goddard Head of Policy (Overcrowding)
• nicki.goddard_at_communities.gsi.gov.uk
• Tel [phone]
• David Clayton National Overcrowding Coordinator
• david.clayton_at_communities.gsi.gov.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Mob [phone]