Our projects

Settled Housing Solutions and The Northern Housing Consortium's National Conference

Settled Housing Solutions have been asked to deliver a professional practice session at the Northern Housing Consortium's National Conference to be held on 23rd and 24th of April in Harrogate.  The theme of the conference, which is run in conjunction with LACORS, is 'The Future Contribution and Potential of Private Sector Housing'.

Other notable speakers at the conference are Dr Julie Rugg, author of the recently published 'Review of the Private Rental Sector', Simon Llewellyn, Head of Private Rented and Leasehold, CLG and Ian Fletcher, Director, British Property Federation.

For further details of the conference please click on the following link: http://www.northern-consortium.org.uk/Page/Events/PrivateSectorHousing2009.aspx

Settled Housing Solutions and the Thames Gateway South Essex Sub-Regional Group

Settled Housing Solutions have been commissioned by the Thames Gateway South Essex Sub-Regional Group to produce a scoping proposal for the introduction of a self-regulatory landlord accreditation scheme.

The scheme will seek to address the sub-region's two key functions in their relationship with the local private rental sector which are to provide a strategic enabling role to help good landlords provide an essential housing service as well as a regulatory function that ensures that the health, safety and welfare of tenants is protected.

For more information about this project please follow this link: Portals/0/SHS Case studies.pdf

Settled Housing Solutions and Central Bedfordshire Council

Settled Housing Solutions have been commissioned to design and integrate a new private rental sector housing option for Central Bedfordshire Council's Housing Advice and Options Team. The project will deliver a framework which supports a multi-agency private sector housing solution that will provide homeless clients with access to good quality, well managed private sector accommodation. The project will also provide a platform to promote better partnership working between the council and the local private rental sector. 

For more information about this project please follow this link: Portals/0/SHS Case studies.pdf

Settled Housing Solutions and The London Borough of Hackney

Settled Housing Solutions were commissioned by the London Borough of Hackney to undertake a comprehensive research based project to examine current Private Rental Sector (PRS) market conditions in the borough. Our findings and recommendations provided Hackney's Housing Service with the guidance on how they can work in partnership with the local PRS to stimulate an increased supply of suitable private rental sector properties with which to support their new Preventions & Options based service.

During the period of consultation with the local PRS, Settled Housing Solutions were able to raise their awareness of the council's Prevention & Options strategy, their qualifying offer initiatives and the service's key desire to formulate a new and sustainable PRS framework.

For more information about this project please follow this link: Portals/0/SHS Case studies.pdf

Settled Housing Solutions and the British Property Federation Annual Conference

Settled Housing Solutions delivered a fringe session at the British Property Federation's annual residential dinner and conference which was held on the 26th and 27th of January 2009. The theme of the conference was, 'Housing - Who Pays?' and looked at the structural changes to the residential sector over the past year, the future of the private rental sector, with particular focus on development and investment and how these issues are re-shaping the housing market.

Other notable speakers at the conference included; Sir Bob Kerslake - Chief Executive, Homes & Communities Agency; Dr Julie Rugg - Senior Researcher, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York and Grant Shapps MP - Shadow Housing Minister.

Settled Housing Solutions and The National Landlords Association Journal

The November edition of the National Landlords Association's bi-monthly journal, 'UK Landlord', contains an in depth interview with Settled Housing Solutions. The article, entitled 'Solving the Social Housing Puzzle: A Fresh Approach', explores the history of Settled Housing Solutions, the experiences that have shaped our views and our core objectives which are to develop models that enable the private sector to take a greater role in local authority housing provision. You can read the interview by clicking on the following link; Portals/0/NLA_Settled_Housing_Solutions.pdf 

For more information about the work of the NLA please visit their website at; www.landlords.org.uk

Settled Housing Solutions' Buy to Let' Repossession Prevention Plan

The plan is based on the 'Best Practice' models that the Settled Housing Solutions consultants have developed in the past. However it will also benefit from utilising much of the knowledge and expertise that was gained through the successful completion of our recent 'Buy to Let' research report that was conducted on behalf of the North London Strategic Alliance.

For further information on the rescue plan please contact one of the Settled Housing Solutions consultants.

Chartered Institute of Housing - The Future of Housing Benefits

Settled Housing Solutions and North Devon Council

Settled Housing Solutions have successfully completed the first stage of the development of a new sustainable private rental sector housing option for North Devon Council. The primary objectives are to fully utilise the local private rental sector as an alternative to temporary accommodation while promoting better standards of properties and property management in the local private sector. This will also contribute to the service meeting the Department of Communities and Local Government's 2010 target of delivering choice based lettings.

NLSA Buy to Let Research Project

The North London Strategic Alliance (NLSA) Group (www.nlsa.org.uk) commissioned Settled Housing Solutions to produce a research-based report on the impact of Buy to Let (BTL) and Buy to Leave in six London boroughs who are part of the NLSA. The six boroughs studied were Haringey, Barnet, Hackney, Enfield, Waltham Forest and Redbridge.

The objective of the research project was to analyse the positive and negative impact that BTL has had on several aspects of the housing market in each of the boroughs involved. Particular issues that were investigated were the effect of BTL on housing market conditions, the impact on supply and demand, house prices, BTL activity on new build developments and, significantly, the effect that the current housing market slowdown caused by the global 'credit crunch' may be having on BTL and PRS investment.

The research project has been successfully completed and the report has been published. You will be able to download a copy from NLSA's website.

 Settled Housing Solutions and The London Housing Foundation

Settled Housing Solutions were invited by the London Housing Foundation to participate in a series of symposiums on how to shape a programme of work to maximise the use of the private rented sector for homeless people.

A report to accompany the symposiums has now been published and available from the foundations new private rented sector website: www.privaterentedsector.org.uk

 Accreditation Network UK (ANUK) 7th Annual Conference

Settled Housing Solutions were invited by the Accreditation Network UK (www.anuk.org.uk) to deliver a workshop at their 7^th annual conference in November 2007. The workshop was entitled, ‘Meeting the Government’s 2010 TA Reduction Target and Beyond’.