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Implementing and developing choice-based lettings: a guide to key issues

Introduction

Guidance to help local authorities, registered social landlords, and other partners in developing and enhancing choice-based lettings (CBL) systems.

Problem

Provides guidance to local authorities to help them develop and improve Choice Based Letting (CBL) in the context of social housing.

Description

This project:

aims to help local authorities, registered social landlords, and other partners in developing and enhancing choice-based letting (CBL) systems;
identifies six key issues for local authorities and their partners: enabling vulnerable groups to participate in CBL, meeting the needs of homeless households and households in temporary accommodation, community cohesion and CBL, partnership working, partnering, reviewing and enhancing CBL models, and development of regional and sub-regional CBL systems;
discusses the analysis of the CBL pilot programme, 'Piloting choice based lettings: an evaluation'; and
considers the support role on CBL provided by the Centre for Comparative Housing Research through its 'choicemoves' website.

Approach

CBL consists of seven complementary principles:

applicant initiative;
social housing and market information;
property and neighbourhood information;
labelling and selection criteria;
needs of vulnerable groups including homeless households;
quality of communications; and
information, advice and support.

Results

Through choice-based letting people who need help with their housing will have more say in where they live together with greater support in making informed choices for shared ownership, low cost home ownership and social rented housing. This will benefit both tenants and landlords.

Beneficiaries

People who need help with their housing, and also landlords in the long term as people are more likely to be satisfied with their housing.

Resources used

Staffing, resources and systems in place in order to offer choice-based lettings.

Contact info

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Phone: +44 20 7944 4400
enquiryodpm@odpm.gsi.gov.uk

Project start date

01/04/2001

Planned end date

01/03/2005

Links

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now Department for Communities and Local Government)

Implementing and developing choice-based lettings: a guide to key issues (PDF, Eng, 280KB)

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Housing > Housing policy

Keywords

Housing need