1. Assessing the housing Needs of Older People Jim McKirdle
WLGA Housing Policy Officer
November 2016

2. LA Strategic Housing role
Assess and plan for the current and future housing needs of the local
population across all tenures
Make the best use of the local housing stock
Plan and facilitate new supply
Plan and commission housing support services
Work in partnership to secure effective housing and neighbourhood
management on an on-going basis

3. Local Housing Market Assessments
10 years ago!!
198 pages
Understanding housing markets
Identifying data sources
Lots of detail

4. Local Housing Market Assessments
Aimed to consolidate and strengthen previous guides on housing market
and housing needs assessments, including:-

5. LHMA Partnership

6. LHMA Progress Some in-house LHMAs But, consultants still kept busy
Cost and complexity as barriers to effective assessments
Limited ownership & understanding
Remained a snapshot in time
Outputs relatively easy to challenge

7. Getting Started: A Step by Step Guide
WLGA support for Housing
Strategy Network
LHMA practitioners group
- key output
Supporting improvement
& good practice
Dependency on Consultants

8. Local Housing Market Assessments
The primary aims of this guide are to:
• Supplement (but not replace) the 2006 Welsh Assembly Government guidance
• Provide a starting point for a quantitative calculation of housing need and an
assessment of the local housing market
• Introduce more consistency in approaches across Wales whilst acknowledging differences between housing markets and access to data sources
• Enable local authorities to undertake an in-house Local Housing Market Assessment (LHMA) and build local capacity and skills
• Provide a starting point on which to build a more sophisticated
understanding of housing markets

9. Local Housing Market Assessments
Newly arising need
Backlog of need
Affordable housing supply
Glen Bramley, Bramley
et al. (1998, p.34)

10. LHMA Calculations

11. LHMA Progress More in-house LHMAs - 2 yrs old, or newer
Strengthening the strategic housing role
Focus on LSVT, WHQS, Homelessness, etc.
CUTS!!!! & impact on capacity
Affordable housing supply & viability challenges

12. Jim McKirdle Jim.mckirdle@wlga.gov.uk