Transformative transfers: growing capacities in UK social housing

The processes involved: The development of a coherent business plan that would have to convince private sector lenders, and that required bidders to value stock, identify and cost current and future repair and modernisation liabilities and understand the nature of complex contracts; this constituted in a step change in required management capacity for social housing and the development of an ass. [...] AHURI report 276 7 Concerns, comparisons and context This study on the role of stock transfers in the evolution of the UK’s not-for-profit housing sector was conducted against the background of growing interest in the possible transfers of Australian state-owned public housing to non-profit ownership and management. [...] By the 1970's the supervisory and funding framework of the Housing Corporation saw associations take important roles in providing ‘special needs’ housing and in housing rehabilitation (especially in Scotland), see Maclennan, Brailey and Lawrie (1983), but there was no sense, prior to the mid-1980s, of the support of an alternative to council housing. [...] Perhaps of particular relevance to Australia, given the still somewhat embryonic state of its not- for-profit housing sector, is the UK experience of building housing association industry capacity in the 1970s and 1980s when government (through the Housing Corporation) and the industry (through the National Federation of Housing Associations) engaged in ambitious and innovative capacity-building a. [...] Within the broad ‘asset’ category, we further identified at least five sub- subjects, including the current housing assets; the developmental value of the current assets; financial leverage of the current assets; the land and the psychological and sociological value of the asset as ‘home’, drawing on the discussions of Whitehead (1993), Ginsburg (2005) and Malpass and Mullins (2002).