Ipswich Housing Market Area Strategic Housing Market Assessment

6.4 Total Dwelling Stock ................................................................................................. 486.5 Housing Tenure ........................................................................................................ 506.6 Housing Types .......................................................................................................... 516.7 Housing Size ............................................................................................................ 526.8 Second Homes ......................................................................................................... 536.9 Vacant Dwellings ...................................................................................................... 536.10 Overcrowding ........................................................................................................... 556.11 Stock Condition......................................................................................................... 556.12 Housing Needs Surveys ........................................................................................... 556.13 Shared Housing ........................................................................................................ 566.14 Communal Establishments ....................................................................................... 56CONCLUSIONS .................................................................................................................. 567. The Active Housing Market ................................................................................................. 577.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 577.2 Overall Price of Home Ownership ............................................................................. 577.3 Purchase Prices by Property Price ........................................................................... 617.4 Entry-Level Purchase Prices ..................................................................................... 647.5 Overall Cost of Private Renting ................................................................................. 667.6 Trends in Rental Costs ............................................................................................. 677.7 Entry-Level Private Rental Costs .............................................................................. 687.8 Overall Cost of Social Rented Property .................................................................... 697.9 Social Rents by Property Size .................................................................................. 707.10 Trends in Social Rent Costs ..................................................................................... 717.11 A Comparison of Housing Costs by Tenure .............................................................. 727.12 Housing Affordability ................................................................................................. 727.13 Affordability of Entry-Level Owner Occupation .......................................................... 727.14 Affordability of Entry-Level Private Rent ................................................................... 777.15 Fuel Poverty ............................................................................................................. 787.16 Overcrowding and Under-Occupation ....................................................................... 797.17 Vacancies, Available Supply and Turnover by Tenure – Step 3.4 ............................. 797.18 Vacancies ................................................................................................................. 807.19 Planned Supply of Market Housing ........................................................................... 817.20 Turnover in the Owner-Occupied Sector ................................................................... 837.21 Turnover in the Private Rented Sector ...................................................................... 847.22 Turnover in the Social Rented Sector ....................................................................... 85CONCLUSIONS .................................................................................................................. 868. Projections for Households and Employment ..................................................................... 878.1 Scope of Projections ................................................................................................. 878.2 Population Projections .............................................................................................. 888.3 Sex and Age Structure of Projections ....................................................................... 898.4 DCLG 2008-base Household Projections ................................................................. 928.5 Household projections using 2010-based population projections.............................. 948.6 East of England Forecasting Model .......................................................................... 978.7 Greater Essex Demographic Forecasts .................................................................. 103CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................ 1059. Extent of Housing Need .................................................................................................... 1069.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1069.2 Findings from Local Housing Needs Assessments and Surveys ............................ 1079.3 Stage 5.1: Current Need (Gross) ............................................................................ 1079.4 Affordability of Unsuitably Housed Households ...................................................... 1099.5 Step 5.2.1 New Household Formation .................................................................... 1099.6 Step 5.2.2 Proportion Unable to Afford Entry-level Market Housing ........................ 1119.7 Step 5.2.3 Existing Households Falling into Need .................................................. 1139.8 Step 5.2.4 Total Newly Arising Need ...................................................................... 114Ipswich Study Area SHMA Update August 2012 3