1. Interesting times
John Bryant
April 2018

2. Setting the scene No majority Political fluidity
Future prospects – 2022?
Brexit

3. No majority To win – 326 Two-party politics 2015 – Tories 330, Lab 232

4. Political fluidity Parliamentary management Current polling
Internal stresses
Tories: Who (if anyone) after May?
Will the real Labour Party please stand up?
A Centre Party?
er…wasn’t that the Lib Dems?

5. Future prospects – 2022? Election timing
Signs of political realignment?
Labour win Canterbury
Tories win Mansfield
Scope for repositioning
Moving to the centre

6. Brexit

7. Politics and priorities for housing
Grenfell
14 June 2017: The day everything changed
A catastrophic failure –
… but of regulation or compliance?
A culture of safety or one of compliance?
Who will pay?
Green paper
Supply, supply, supply
Our Offer to Tenants

8. What housing and for whom?
Traditional ownership
Down to 63.4% in 2016
Market rent
Rebalancing ownership and renting
The social sector
Shared ownership
Affordable rent
Social rent

9. Rents after 2020 Rent freedom or rent certainty?
But is that really the choice?
The status quo ante: CPI+1
Mind the small print
Affordable rent
5% tolerance
Service charges
Impact of welfare changes

10. Deregulation or reregulation?
Regulating housing across the board
Safety issues
Especially fire
Gas servicing
Fitness for habitation
Single housing ombudsman
Regulating social housing specifically
Disposals
Changing face of the sector
Private investors increasingly interested
Poorer returns from offices and shopping malls

11. A few other bits and pieces …
A separate regulator
Charities
What they can do and what they can’t
Leaseholds
No new leasehold houses (usually)
Peppercorn ground rents
Procurement
Assume EU rules will still apply after Brexit
GDPR
All happens on 25 May
Data Protection Bill
Whose data?
Legitimate purpose and consent

12. John Bryant Policy Leader 020 7067 1082 john.bryant@housing.org.uk
April 2018