Let's Talk About Sheffield Housing

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Have your say on the future of Sheffield's housing 

Sheffield City Council want to hear your views on the housing issues that are important to you.

 

• Do you want more housing choices and better access to affordable homes?
• Do you want more help and advice to make your home more environmentally friendly and easier to heat?
• Can you help shape the way housing support is provided to vulnerable people?

The council are keen to hear from tenants, homeowners, leaseholders, students, everyone that lives in the city!

 

The council say they will use your views to help write the new Housing Strategy for Sheffield.

 

The survey is open now until 17 March 2024.

 

https://haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/sheffields-housing-strategy

[hackey lad 3,987]

Start by replacing the houses they pulled down years ago .

[mafya 250]

28 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Start by replacing the houses they pulled down years ago .

I think it was something called pathfinder where they knocked fown loads of housing and replaced it with zilch and here’s a link to it from 2002=
https://moderngov.rotherham.gov.uk/Data/The Former Cabinet Member for Housing and Environmental Services - Oct 2000 to May 2005/20020930/Agenda/$Pathfinder Report.doc.pdf

[Longcol 607]

1 hour ago, mafya said:

I think it was something called pathfinder where they knocked fown loads of housing and replaced it with zilch and here’s a link to it from 2002=
https://moderngov.rotherham.gov.uk/Data/The Former Cabinet Member for Housing and Environmental Services - Oct 2000 to May 2005/20020930/Agenda/$Pathfinder Report.doc.pdf

Used to work for a housing association. Back around that time it was very difficult to let social housing - tenants were moving in droves to the private sector. Remember in the housing press a new build scheme in Newcastle being demolished because they couldn't get tenants.  The 2008 crash and changes in Housing Benefit regs in 2011 put an end to that.

[Anna B 1,417]

I'd like to see the council buying back ex- council houses when they come up for sale, and buying up all the empty houses (8,000 in Sheffield apparently) and bringing them up to a livable standard.

 

No need for swathes of large council estates which always seem to get a bad name, rather spread them out in already established communities. Plenty of brownfield sites that could be utilised for house building too.

[vmam 35]

Vet all prospective tenants, it doesn't work thinking bad tenants will learn from good tenants.

[spilldig 190]

It's a complete waste of time us saying anything because they simply take no notice.

[Ms Macbeth 76]

On 20/02/2024 at 22:50, Longcol said:

Used to work for a housing association. Back around that time it was very difficult to let social housing - tenants were moving in droves to the private sector. Remember in the housing press a new build scheme in Newcastle being demolished because they couldn't get tenants.  The 2008 crash and changes in Housing Benefit regs in 2011 put an end to that.

You’re right.  I was a housing worker just before and after 2000, some Northern councils (Kirklees was one) were advertising their empty homes outside their own areas  in the hope of attracting tenants from elsewhere.   
 

I wish the government would stop Right to Buy.  Scotland and Wales have withdrawn it, but not England.  
 

If there was more suitable and affordable housing for older people, that would free up more family sized homes in all tenures.  People hang on in unsuitable housing, because they don’t see any alternative.

 

Edited February 22 by Ms Macbeth

[bassett one 452]

yeah i know loads that wont move from 2/3/4 bed houses because they dont want to be moved in with yobs and loud anti social behaviour ,we need the tennents vetting,they set on some great patch officers to call at every house once a year that way they could help advise ect,problem once set on they found they could only visit if invited and they have little authority ,stop selling the houses it sounded good until like many ideas the older people died and that left the children often a number of them wanting a quick sale and selling to a private landlord and the social security having to pay more rent than the same house owned by the council,we need more homes,plus tennents associations need more rights and the 5p levy on every house is wrong ,either make it 10p and let the tennents spend sensibly without council dictation or scrap it as it costs more to sort out than its worth every other council just gift money to tennents associations ,plus stop all that levy charged to social housing being gifted to council coffers just because they dont have a tennents association,get tougher i say.

[Anna B 1,417]

3 hours ago, vmam said:

Vet all prospective tenants, it doesn't work thinking bad tenants will learn from good tenants.

This used to be general practice back in the 50's.

Also had to sign a contract establishing what your responsibilities were.

 

Mind you, it's also worth remembering that lack of money causes general decline in houses. The council are slow off the mark to correct building faults if at all. Can't afford to decorate? Tough. Need a new fence or gate but can't afford it = Have to leave the old one to rot. No lawnmower or garden tools  =Overgrown neglected garden etc. 

[Ms Macbeth 76]

1 hour ago, Anna B said:

This used to be general practice back in the 50's.

Also had to sign a contract establishing what your responsibilities were.

 

Mind you, it's also worth remembering that lack of money causes general decline in houses. The council are slow off the mark to correct building faults if at all. Can't afford to decorate? Tough. Need a new fence or gate but can't afford it = Have to leave the old one to rot. No lawnmower or garden tools  =Overgrown neglected garden etc. 

In the early days/50s prospective tenants had to show they could afford the rent!   Council houses were a step up, with inside bathrooms and hot water.

 

Some Tenants’ and Residents’ Associations (TARAS) have tools they can lend.   It’s so sad when most people take care of their homes, then just a few have no pride at all.   

[bassett one 452]

theres also a policy say a single mum with say 2 kids gets a house the grass is high and a mess they used to sort it so it just needed cutting there forth ,but know they dont do it, they let people put up fences ,but the next owner may not be able to maintain it .the whole lot is a mess,low standards by the housing leads to the same by some tennents