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The implications of policy reform for profit motives of social housing actors in England
Charles Jarvis
Post Graduate Researcher
Introduction
• Aim and objectives of the research • Modernisation of the housing system• The rise of for-profit actors• Implications on not-for-profit providers• Emergence and importance of bond finance
Aim: To identify the changes in institutional and organisational relationships and responses in the affordable housing market in England following the introduction of for-profit actors
Objectives
•Investigate the role played by the private sector within the affordable housing market, with particular reference to for-profit providers in supporting the development of new affordable housing, and the management of existing and new affordable housing stock. •Review current financial models and management strategies used by private registered providers in England to assess whether for-profit and not-for-profit providers have different business practices and identify models which are most suitable for developing new affordable housing during a period of protracted economic decline, austerity and retrenchment in public finances; use these results to develop a typology of affordable housing providers
Objectives ….. (continued)
• Use the interviews and case studies to analyse the entry barriers, both external and internal, to the successful delivery of private registered providers’ business plans and the government’s wider objectives of developing new affordable housing.
• Through the case studies, consider the extent to which these barriers can be overcome under the current legislative and regulatory structures.
• Develop policy thinking on affordable housing finance and development through a series of policy propositions for future affordable housing provision for central government and its agencies, using a workshop.
Modernisation of the housing system
Three sequential waves of financialization in social housing
1. Demunicipalisation2. Contracting of services3. Opening the market to for-profit providers
The rise of for-profit PRPs
• 29 registered for-profits• 3 types of for-profit
providers:LegitimizersOpportunists Aristocracy
• Issues with scale
Implications for not-for-profit PRPs
• Commercialization • Shift from counter cyclical to cyclical business cycle• Un-registered parents• Business diversification
Traditional washing line, group structure of not-for-profit PRPs
Example 1: of new PRP business models
Direct Works
(contracts)
Development
Treasury
Place Making
Social Housing
CBL
Estate Mgt
Direct works
(contractor)
Consultant Services
Training Provider
Health Centres
PRS Lettings
Asset Mgt
Loans
Bonds
Private Placements
Affordable HousingShared
Ownership
Out Right Sales
PRS
Example 2: New PRP business model
Social Housing Landlord
Facilities Management
Developer Charity
Group Services
Customers
£ Profits recycled
£ Profits
The rise of bonds in social housing
References
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