Delivering Affordable Rent

Government funding for social housing is now primarily targeted at a new social housing product: Affordable Rent (AR), allowing landlords to charge up to 80% of market rent and offer the new model on flexible tenancies.

Capita’s National Delivering Affordable Rent Conference comes at a crucial time to help you understand the major impact of this new regime on your finances, ways to obtain resources for future developments as well as pioneering practice from chief executives and housing sector leaders.

With all AR housing providers contracts due to be signed by January 2012, attention is turning to how Housing Associations, Local Authorities and House Builders are going to work in partnership to deliver the Government’s target of up the 150,000 new affordable properties. Against a backdrop of welfare reform and financial inclusion considerations for tenants, the AR model represents major challenges to all stakeholders regardless of locality, size or income level. Attend this timely event to examine:

• The best way forward for your organisation under the new AR model
• Ways to produce additional rental income to invest in new builds
• How to improve dialogue between Housing Associations and Local Authorities
• Building new homes using a blended approach with market rent below 80%

• Hear from the Home and Communities Agency (HCA) on the Affordable Rent Model and how funding will be allocated
• Understand the changes proposed under the Welfare Reform Bill and learn how landlords will cope with Housing Benefit (HB) paid directly to tenants
• Learn how to implement the AR model in high and low cost areas as
  well as rural and urban locations
• Take advantage of a practical session on converting existing properties
  to the new model and explore how to successfully negotiate tenancy
  strategies
• Recognise the importance of maintaining a good relationship between Housing Associations and Local Authorities when implementing the new product
• Find out about self-financing under the Housing Revenue Account, and what it means for Local Authorities and their financial capabilities to build new affordable homes
• Benefit from a major lender’s perspective and learn how to raise funds for new developments