Fermanagh - Northern Ireland Housing Executive

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The Local Housing Allowance for a three bed dwelling is £88.15 per week (as at April 2013). Private sector housing benefit claims continue to increase in Fermanagh due to difficulty in accessing owner occupation and the shortage of social housing. However, it is perceived that this sector has become less affordable to singles under the age of 35 claiming housing benefit. The increase in the age limit for the Shared Room Rate has seen housing benefit entitlement fall short of rent charges. The number of applications for Discretionary Housing Payment to meet this shortfall has increased significantly in the last year. Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) present another affordable housing option, most commonly availed of by single benefit claimants, low income households, students and migrant workers. Welfare reform may result in increased demand for HMOs as housing benefit is reduced for households in under-occupation. 2.4 Social housing The housing need assessment 2012-2017 identified a need for 74 additional units in Fermanagh (see Appendix 3). Fifteen social housing new build properties were delivered in 2012/13. Waiting list trends are detailed in Table 3 while waiting list information by settlement at December 2012 is shown in Appendix 4: • Housing stress has declined significantly since 2007; • 36% of applicants are in housing stress; • 50% of housing stress applicants are single, 20% elderly and 20% small families; • Allocations fell by 1.6% compared with the previous year; • 361 people presented as homeless during 2012/13, 153 of whom were awarded Full Duty Status. Housing Executive stock in Fermanagh comprises 1,999 dwellings (see Appendix 5). At March 2013 there were 21 void properties pending allocation. With the onset of the Welfare Reform Bill, the Housing Executive is committed to finding suitable alternative accommodation for those tenants who will have their housing benefit restricted through under occupation and who wish to downsize. We aim to deliver 200 one bed units in each year of the Social Housing Development Programme (2013/16) to help meet the anticipated increase in demand for smaller dwellings. 20
Table 3: Social housing statistics public sector Fermanagh December December Waiting List 2008 2009 Trends December 2010 Mar/Apr December 2012 2012 All Applicants 925 822 813 639 835 Housing Stress 451 347 319 252 301 Annual Allocations 192 238 186 252 248 Fermanagh Waiting list sub-set of homeless applicants 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 Presented 409 409 475 407 361 Awarded Full Duty Status 148 187 159 87 153 Fermanagh Housing Executive sales information & housing association (HA) starts 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 HA New Build Starts 97 36 3 24 NIHE House Sales 15 8 10 8 Average Market Value £75,167 £65,313 £64,550 £49,187 Source: NIHE 21
Page 1 and 2: Fermanagh District Housing Plan & L
Page 3 and 4: Contents Foreword .................
Page 5 and 6: Following the Northern Ireland Audi
Page 7 and 8: • At March 2013, the Housing Exec
Page 9: Landlord Services Corporate Objecti
Page 12 and 13: 1.3 Policy context The Northern Ire
Page 14 and 15: We see this as a prerequisite to ea
Page 17 and 18: Section 2 Housing Market Analysis 2
Page 19 and 20: Census 2011 reports 96.1% of the po
Page 21: Northern Ireland Co-ownership Housi
Page 26 and 27: In line with the proposed separatio
Page 28 and 29: DSD introduced the Tenancy Deposit
Page 30 and 31: 3.3 Objective 2 - Supporting indepe
Page 32 and 33: development are among the core obje
Page 34 and 35: Landlord Services The Housing Execu
Page 36 and 37: 3.8 Objective 3 - Building stronger
Page 38 and 39: 3.9 Objective 4 - Delivering qualit
Page 40 and 41: Appendices 38
Page 42 and 43: Appendix 2 Maintenance and grants i
Page 44 and 45: Analysis of adaptations to Housing
Page 46 and 47: Appendix 4 Household composition of
Page 48 and 49: Settlement Type Single person Small
Page 50 and 51: Common Landlord Area Bung (i) Flat

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