Fermanagh - Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Fermanagh - Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Fermanagh - Northern Ireland Housing Executive
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Regional housing services<br />
The <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Executive</strong> provides a wide range of regional housing services. Some of<br />
these are easily identifiable, as they have no connection with our landlord role, e.g.<br />
the funding and management of the Social <strong>Housing</strong> Development Programme and<br />
the Home Improvement Grants Scheme. We also work closely with Health Trusts in<br />
the delivery of the Supporting People Programme. However, some of the regional<br />
housing services are less easy to distinguish from the landlord role, such as<br />
homelessness, <strong>Housing</strong> Selection Scheme policy, and the administration of <strong>Housing</strong><br />
Benefit to social private tenants.<br />
3.2 Objective 1 - Delivering better homes<br />
To deliver better homes we aim to:<br />
• Manage our social housing stock to minimise empty dwellings<br />
We completed<br />
and implement an Empty Homes Strategy and Action Plan to<br />
two new build<br />
bring vacant homes back into use;<br />
schemes to<br />
• Support private sector improvements to reduce the provide 15<br />
percentage of homes failing the Decent Homes Standard; social housing<br />
• Promote thermal efficiency to help address fuel poverty.<br />
units in 2012/13.<br />
The Programme for Government 2011-2015 sets a target of 6,000 social and 2,000<br />
affordable homes over the four year period. We work closely with partner housing<br />
associations to deliver the Social <strong>Housing</strong> Development Programme (SHDP) across<br />
<strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Ireland</strong> and will continue to support housing associations to develop higher<br />
levels of energy efficiency and sustainability.<br />
When preparing a housing mix for<br />
individual new build schemes, we<br />
consider a number of factors<br />
including household groups in<br />
housing stress and demand for<br />
bespoke properties from wheelchair<br />
users or those with complex needs.<br />
The <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Executive</strong> promotes the<br />
development of a minimum 200 one<br />
bed units by <strong>Housing</strong> Associations in<br />
each year of the SHDP 2013/16. This<br />
will help meet the needs of those<br />
requiring smaller properties in line<br />
with welfare reform. Details of the<br />
SHDP are shown in Appendix 1.<br />
The ‘Get Britain Building’ fund, administered by DSD, will provide £19 million in interest<br />
free loans to housing associations to facilitate the delivery of affordable housing in<br />
<strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Ireland</strong> over the next two years.<br />
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