Choice based letting system

election establish letting ashesCommittee report on the advantages and disadvantages of cream ground letting.SummaryThis report sets out the advantages and disadvantages of moving to a alternative found letting system.1. Introduction.1.1. The Communities and Local Government Department introduced the excerption-based Letting (CBL) fascinate in 2001 as a pilot programme. The programme was intended to passing weft and make more transpargonnt the letting procedure to the consumer. base on the Delft model, it was intended to replace the points-based allocation system with a lettings inspection and repair that home check offkers could understand. The Delft model was developed in the Netherlands as a replacement for distribution model or the allocation of amic commensurate living appointments via a postponement keep d let. 1.2. This report is intended to highlight the2. Needs based allocation and its issues. 2.1. Choice in the public service empyrean has been on the Brit ish political agenda since the late 1990s which in deviate has forced a revaluation of posits- based allocations. The well-disposed rented sector, which consists of local administration and trapping associations, since the 1970s has based admit allocations on affect. This has been achieved by allocating points to prove if a habitation was living in shipboard fitting, inappropriate accommodation due to overcrowding and/or unacceptable accommodation due to disrepair and condition. 2.2. The consumes based system of allocation has become established within the social lodgment sector as the method for allocating council houses, and with the use of separate criteria such as waiting time has endured for over thirty years within the sector including the shaping of guidance and legislation. Needs based allocations were based upon a disceptation of reasonable preferences categorised as families with dependent children and pregnant women people occupying temporary or insecure accommodation someones with a particular need for settled accommodation on medical or welf atomic number 18 grounds households whose social and economic circumstances mean that they rich person difficulty securing settled accommodation and Statutorily homeless households. 2.3. Within the research some critics have verbalised issues with the needs based allocation system. The above categories show the concept of need is narrowly defined and as such has not been implemented correctly, the cogency to wait for a better house ensures that those in less need cigaret obtain better quality housing. Discrimination of the sort that is baffled to housing needs, such as racism, is still present within the system . Specific issues regarding needs based allocations include the unpopularity and complexity of the points system, the suspected inclination of an orbit of applicants or landlords on a points based system to exaggerate their need in order to secure additional points. Another issu e is the thought process that this system results in an area becoming overrun with poor and disfavour households occupying a single tenure, social rented housing. 2.4. Other, more general inefficiencys relating to the needs based system include the amount of offers to the consumer that are turn down, the large remainder of applications that are of date but still remain on the waiting list, areas of low demand that bureaucratic rationing fail to address and the conviction that the need based system is highly coercive and gives the consumer no material prospects to articulate their opinions or chose accommodation that is to their preference. 2.5. Overall the needs based or bureaucratic rationing system to some commentators and consumers is unpopular and overly complex. The consumer has no concept of the points system and those that do adopt a regime of points chasing. 3. How Choice-based Lettings whole works3.1 Choice-based Lettings (CBL) replaces the traditional way of allocati ng housing under which housing officers seek to add up applicants who have precession on the waiting list to easy vacancies. CBL awards applicants for social housing (and existing tenants seeking a move) to apply for available vacancies which are forced widely (eg in the local newspaper or on a website). Applicants can see the full range of available properties and can ask for (ie. apply) for any home to which they are matched (eg a single person would not be eligible for a three-bedroom house). The successful weight-liftder is the one with the highest priority under the scheme. Authorities provide feedback that helps applicants to assess their chances of success in succeeding applications. 3.2 Choice ground Lettings is a new approach to letting homes which pull up s postulatesing make lettings arrangements more transparent and give prospective tenants more tally over the lettings process. Rather than homes being allocated by the council, choice based lettings allow tena nts and prospective tenants to bid for the available properties they are interested in. Available homes impart be advertised on the internet and a bi-weekly property magazine, which volition allow applicants to see what Council or housing association housing is available in the area and enable them to play a greater fibre in the process of selecting their home. 3.3 Choice based lettings for uprise not subjoin the amount of available social housing. However, people seeking re-housing ordain have accurate discipline on how umpteen homes are actually available, where these homes are located and their chances of being housed. As the system is much more transparent, housing applicants volition have all the information necessary to make their own informed choices.BiddingAll registered home-seekers leave be able to bid for the homes advertised. Bidding can be done through the internet, by phone, by text or by coupon. The property magazine will list many details including a photog raph of the property, its location and the size of household that the home is suitable for. People will only be able to bid for a property suitable for their household size. A rank of bidders will be drawn up and the home-seeker in the highest priority will be offered the property. If they do not want to accept the property it will be offered to the next highest bidder and so on.Other OptionsOne of the advantages of the transparency of choice based lettings is that it helps people understand the likelihood of being re-housed, and consider options other than being housed by the Council or housing associations. There are many other alternatives to social housing available to home-seekers in Thanet and we will on a regular basis publicise alternative options, such as the Councils Rent Deposit Scheme, and evoke the role of the Housing Options Team in working with home-seekers to resolve their housing difficulties.InformationApplicants have more information on their housing opportuniti es. They will see the number of properties available and the level of priority of successful bidders. Choice based lettings will also provide a place to advertise opportunities for shared ownership, and hopefully in the future private rented options. While creating greater choice for people seeking re-housing, choice based lettings encourages people to take greater responsibility for their future housing. It helps people who are unlikely to get into social housing to consider other options to meet their housing requirements. bear outOther statutory and voluntary agencies that support vulnerable members of the community will have an important role in ensuring their clients benefit from Choice Based Lettings. We will help train these agencies so they can support their clients to bid for properties. Our Housing Options team will also provide advice and support. There will be a variety of ways to bid. People will be able to choose a method which suits them. Information will be availabl e in public areas and we will also have a procedure where people can bid on the behalf of others, e.g. relatives and friends, staff or support workers, who may have problems otherwise. We will monitor people who do not bid to find out why this is happening and see if there is anything we can do to help them. There will be more publicity on choice based lettings before the instal so that everyone is aware of the new system, and where they can go for more information and help.