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Westminster – Housing Needs Assessment 20062.3 Key points from Balancing Housing MarketsAs part of the Balancing the Housing Market component of the Comprehensive PerformanceAssessment conducted by the Audit Commission, each Council must assess the extent to which itunderstands its entire housing market, the extent to which it is taking appropriate actions to balancethe housing market, and to demonstrate that it is adequately monitoring progress in achieving abalanced housing market.The suggestion of ‘Balancing Housing Markets’, indeed, appears in the ODPM guidance onHousing Needs Assessment (under the heading of ‘Gross Flows’).ODPMGuide‘A further development of the approach (the Basic Needs Assessment Model)together with demographic components is to try to build a model showing the grossannual flows of households between each of the main tenures within the City. Sucha model would also show the flows of new and migrant households into the systemand of dissolving and out-migrating households out of the system’. [Appendix A7.4(page 157)]Fordham Research has developed an innovative methodology to allow the information gathered inthe housing needs assessment to be used as part of the diagnostic assessment the Council is requiredto undertake. A full chapter in the report is devoted to this analysis, which assesses the extent towhich housing markets are balanced and suggests the directions the Council might take to approacha more balanced condition. This Balancing Housing Market methodology (an Adapted Gross Flowsapproach) shows exactly what shortages and surpluses exist and are likely to persist in the mediumterm according to size of dwelling and tenure in relation to the aspirations and affordability ofwould-be movers. Aspirations of households are determined by direct questions in the survey andare different from their assessed needs, as calculated during analysis with reference to thehousehold size and composition.Whilst one of the outputs of the BHM model is an estimate of the shortfall of affordable housingthis should not be taken as an estimate of the absolute need for such housing. As the BHM is ademand and aspiration driven model (unlike the BNAM, which is mainly based on past trends andon need as calculated with reference to a strict bedroom standard) there are inevitably somehouseholds who have a demand for affordable housing but under the BNAM would not beconsidered as needing such housing. Additionally as the bulk of the supply in the BHM is based onexpected future household moves it is often the case that this model shows a lower supply level thanthe trend data of the BNAM (typically drawn from the HSSA).PAGE 26
2. Housing Needs Assessment - backgroundIt is therefore common to find that the BHM shows a slightly higher estimate of the affordablerequirement than the BNAM but this should not be taken as the survey’s base estimate of theabsolute requirement for affordable housing (which is measured using the ODPM's Basic NeedsAssessment Model). The BHM is however particularly useful at ascertaining what shortages exist inthe private sector market and can help to guide councils in securing an appropriate mix of markethousing on new housing developments.The inherent idea behind the BHM method is that it seeks to meet the requirements of the currentpopulation first with the amount of in-migration used to ‘balance’ figures to the estimatedhousehold growth of an area.2.4 SummaryHousing Needs Assessments have become, over the past decade, a standard requirement for localauthorities across Britain. The publication of Local Housing Needs Assessment: A Guide to GoodPractice by ODPM in July 2000 has now standardised the form of such assessments. They aredesigned to underpin housing and planning strategies by providing relevant data for them.In addition to focussing on the need for affordable housing, this study addresses housingrequirements across all housing tenures. This is with a view to producing information, which willassist policy making in relation to both housing and planning policy, as well as the ComprehensivePerformance Assessment.PAGE 27
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First Surveys MarketResearch13 Darw
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