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Title: Introduction to Housing and Learning Disability in Medway


1
Introduction to Housing and Learning Disability
in Medway
  • By
  • Russell Drury, Medway Council Housing Department

2
What type of housing do people in Medway live?
  • Housing Needs Survey 2006

3
Where do people with a learning disability, known
to adult social care, live in Medway?
2011
4
How is housing organised in in Medway?
  • Big Medway 2011-2014 housing plan (strategy) for
    everyone in Medway
  • There is an easy read version
  • You can get this on
  • www.medway.gov.uk

5
Big Medway Housing Target Affordable Housing
  • Over the last few years, house prices gone up a
    lot across the country and many people are now
    not able to buy or rent housing without Council
    help.
  • Affordable housing in Medway helps people (in
    the most need) to be able to afford to buy or
    rent housing in Medway.

6
Challenge - Affordable Housing
  • Each year Medway advertises about 700
    affordable housing properties
  • But .. each year 15,000 people say they need to
    live in affordable housing in Medway
  • This means Medway need to
  • Build lots more affordable housing
  • Understand who these need to be built for





7
Understanding Learning Disability Housing Plans
in Medway
  • Medway Council has just started working with the
    Institute of Public Care (IPC) to do a Medway
    Learning Disability Housing Needs Assessment
  • Needs Assessments let people know what is
    needed about something and who needs it.

8
Housing Work plan for the Partnership Board
  • We would like to have a clear housing work plan
    for the Partnership Board.
  • We would like to have the housing work plan
    around the 3 main areas people on the Partnership
    Board think are working and not working.

9
Housing Small Group Exercise
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