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SALFORD HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CRISIS WRIT LARGE IN NEW COUNCIL REPORT
 

Star date: 25th October 2019

ONLY SEVEN SOCIAL RENT HOMES DELIVERED IN SALFORD LAST YEAR AS HOUSING WAITING LIST RISES

Salford City Council has produced a new report on affordable housing which shows that only 224 so-called 'affordable' homes were delivered in the city last year, of which only 3%, or seven homes, were truly affordable via social rent.

Meanwhile, the housing waiting list rose by 5%; the number of families living in temporary accommodation rose; there was an average 51 bids for every affordable home advertised in the city; and increases in average private sector rents, together with declining affordability for anyone wanting to buy a home in the city.

Full details here...

"There is strong demand for affordable housing within the City with homelessness and housing demand continuing to increase and that the delivery of new affordable housing to meet this demand is a significant challenge...." Salford City Council

Eye watering statistics outlining the affordable housing crisis in the city have just been produced by Salford City Council within a report on the Delivery Of Affordable Homes...

224 affordable homes were delivered in Salford during 2018-19 but within the definition of affordable homes are homes that are not truly 'affordable', like 'affordable rent' (80% of market rent) and so-called 'shared' or 'low cost' home ownership (not 'low cost' at all).

Within the 224 'affordable homes' delivered last year, 81% were 'affordable rent' and 17% were 'shared ownership', while just 3%, or seven homes, were social rent.

Even within this broad definition, Salford requires 613 'affordable homes per year' and is getting nowhere near it. The Council report underlines the crisis...

* As of April this year, there were 6,094 households registered on the city's housing waiting list – a 5% increase on the previous year.

* A 12% reduction in homes advertised (2017-2018) through Salford Home Search

* A 31% increase in 2018-19 in bids for advertised affordable homes - an average of 51 bids per affordable home, up from 39 bids in 2017/18.

* 1345 households in need of adapted or accessible housing.

* Increasing numbers of homelessness presentations and households owed a homelessness duty. In 2018-19, 3,533 households presented as homeless with 295 households owed the main housing duty - up from 656 households presenting as homeless and 181 households being owed a homelessness duty in 2012.

* 155 households placed in temporary accommodation during January to March 2019 - an increase from 93 the previous quarter.

* Declining affordability for market housing across the city with an average affordability ratio of six times mean house price to mean household income, compared to 5.9 in 2016/17; plus increasing average Private Rented Sector (PRS) rents with a 7.7% increase in average rents to £814 in 2018/19.

The statistics also show that around two thirds of households presenting as homeless needed support with mental health, physical or ill health issues.

It's a mess recognised by Salford Council, which understates it as a "significant challenge" and a "major priority" in the report.

The Salford Star has estimated that well over one thousand affordable houses have been lost to the city thanks to the Council's own planning policy which allows developers in certain areas in the city not to provide any such housing.*

The Council kind of acknowledges this in the report, stating that just 12 homes were built from Section 106 monies in 2018-19, while it is about to 'refresh' its current shocking Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) on Planning Obligations next month...

"This will include amendments to the wording in the document to ensure that the City is asking for some affordable housing on all developments, an update to the boundaries of the housing value areas which alongside the revised Supplementary Planning Documents would expand the areas to which the 20% affordable housing requirement would apply and to add a separate affordable housing requirement on build to rent schemes" the report explains in one huge sentence. 

Meanwhile, "revised affordable housing obligation" that will introduce a minimum of 20% affordable housing across the city won't be adopted until May 2021- and even then will be "subject to further viability analysis".

The report adds that over the next five years 1,158 'affordable homes' are in the pipeline for delivery, of which just 449 will be for social rent. At least some of the 'pipeline' schemes listed are spurious in the least, and the figures still fall short of the 3,065 that the Council states it needs...

The Council's own housing company, Derive, is forecast to provide a mere 117 'affordable homes' within the next five years.


* For more background see previous Salford Star articles...

Affordable Housing Shortage Intensifies and Poverty Rises In Salford - click here

A Tour Through Salford Council Spin On Affordable Housing - click here

Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 16:36:09 on 30 October 2019
If you're on the housing register, it's pretty clear what bumps you up the list...local connections, young children, disabilities, homelessness status. Ethnicity isn't one of them. If you're on the list, just have a look at how it's calculated. @Geographer - Ironically, his comments make it look as if his first language isn't English. So he's trying to do himself out of a house.
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 16:35:49 on 30 October 2019
Kev,Darren Born and Bred,isn't stating objective facts - instead he's using this site to vent his hatred ! Don't you realise that such views paint Salford in a very negative colour;it suggests that our city is populated by embittered xenophobes!
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Geographer wrote
at 12:16:16 on 30 October 2019
DARREN BORN AND BRED's grasp of geography is interesting. "Africa is a poor place" All of the CONTINENT or just some countries?
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 19:18:55 on 29 October 2019
I have MANY friends from the foreign community in Salford area. IM NOT against them coming into this country. Have you seen there countries, Syria is bombed and wrecked and Africa is a poor place.These people are here for a better life for there familys.I get on with 99% of people. The TRUTH is,Salford people are not getting these houses FIRST.The government has told the council, there come FIRST.
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Kev wrote
at 19:18:15 on 29 October 2019
RayofSunshine- Why is pointing out the truth of the situation racist? Our Labour Council, have decided local people don't matter.
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Cody wrote
at 12:37:49 on 29 October 2019
There's not just an issue with none UK people getting housing preference before born-and-bred locals. There's also issues with people from elsewhere in the UK coming in to Salford and taking housing. Whether from outside the UK or from within, once here they have a local connection after 6 months in Salford and are then placed in bands with local residents, and they then come before most locals as they're in hostels and B&Bs. As far as I'm concerned the people who were born-and-bred in Salford, no matter what colour or religion, should always come first on the housing list.
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 12:37:46 on 29 October 2019
DARREN BORN AND BRED is using the housing crisis inSalford as a pretext for spewing racist poison. Pinhead DARREN,please desist!
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 06:27:03 on 29 October 2019
I talk to a LOT of Salford people during the day. Hundreds have told me,That there ave been on the housing waiting list for 3/6 years living in 2bed houses,with 2parents,3kids.There go to Salford housing offices EACH WEEK to inquire about a social/council house. When there get there, A family there NOT FROM SALFORD, getting keys to a 3bed house.The government has told the council,THERE COME FIRST.
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 18:34:23 on 28 October 2019
I am a remarkable chap,I drive for a living around Salford,i could be a bin truck driver,taxi driver,dept collector. I see all these social/ council houses in SALFORD being given to *people not from Salford*.. These houses are took by the African, Syrian etc people who come to England for a better life. I don't blame em. Salford council give the priority to these people first.
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bob the regular wrote
at 18:34:15 on 28 October 2019
Well I can see a bit of a row brewing here,one of the sort that can get a little bitter. Might I be able to step in as an honest peacemaker.I can see the point from both sides. The only way to nail this on the head, is for Salford council to show openly how their allocation policy works. If it is fair, then nobody can complain. It should be out in the open.I think the council will not make this public. This indicates to me, there is something they do not want you to know. So , the thing is, if people make politically incorrect statements, and people do not like it, the only way to shoot them down is the truth. They cannot be shot down with lies, only the truth will do.
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white wrote
at 14:53:22 on 28 October 2019
Darren Born and Bred is a remarkable chap. Not only does he drive around Ordsall, Kersal, Duchy, Heights, Swinton and Eccles every day, but he manages to find out who are the residents of the council/affordable houses. Does he enquire at each house?
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 18:51:22 on 27 October 2019
We all know these council houses are not going to SALFORD people. I drive around SALFORD every day,ordsall,kersal, broughton,duchy,heights,swinton,Eccles, walkden. Salford council are giving council/affordable houses to the people from Syria,Africa etc first. THERE GET PRIORITY. I know because I see it everyday for the last 10years. There countrys are bad, so there come to England.
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at 18:50:31 on 27 October 2019
The reason we have no cheap affordable houses is because of Salford council. They knocked all the old houses down, thousands of them with cash from Blair and Browns governments, governments that our local mp at the time was a member of. These houses were not luxury , but they did the job and they were cheap. Now, people have nothing, or the ones that do, have huge debt as well. This is all because of social cleansing as Deb puts it. I would put it stronger than that, but you probably would not print my letter. A scandal.
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Deb wrote
at 17:46:47 on 26 October 2019
We should be bothered about adequate numbers of housing social housing provided to working class people not the number of years that equate you being a citizen of Salford Council steaming ahead with social cleansing
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bob the regular wrote
at 07:15:09 on 26 October 2019
If Kev were to ask the council this, they would try and suggest that the question had "some sort of racist undertones". Of course it doesn't, as Salfordians come from all types of ethnic and religious backgrounds these days.The question is valid, but the town hall allocations people will not answer it as it will be "confidential" as sensitive matters are always deemed to be by these tossers.
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Kev wrote
at 16:05:09 on 25 October 2019
And how many of those new homes went to Salfordians?
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