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Strategic housing
The strategic housing role is about using the full range of housing and land use planning powers available to local authorities. It also entails working with partners to meet the needs of all residents. This involves ensuring the delivery of new and affordable housing while making the best use of existing stock.
The strategic housing role requires vision, leadership, planning and delivery to:
- assess and plan for current and future housing needs of the local population
- make the best use of existing housing stock
- plan and facilitate new supply
- plan and commission housing support services which link homes to the support and the services people require to live in them
- have working partnerships that secure effective housing and neighbourhood management.
Good practice guides
Read the IDeA's (now Local Government Improvement and Development) good practice guides on strategic housing, from new housing provision to homelessness.
Articles on strategic housing
From increasing affordable housing to finding housing for ex-offenders, this collection of articles and interviews explores the challenges experienced by local authorities in their efforts to effectively play their strategic housing role.
Find out the innovative methods and good practice these councils employed in meeting those challenges.
Strategic housing events – facing the future
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