Ways of working in the private rented sector'

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Ways of working in the private rented sector.
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The Workshop.

• People work and the Market.
• Agorfa Cefni, What How and Why?
• Changing the way we work.
• Developing the PRS as a resource.
• Tenancy Notebook and Social lettings agency.
• Sustainability and resettlement techniques.
• Is work with substance use any different?
• Interagency work and the PRS.
• Emergency accommodation and the PRS
• Some figures
• What does it cost and who pays?

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Agorfa, Cefni and the PRS.

• Background information, www.housemark.co.uk and
  www.whq.org.uk
• 2006/2007 PRS research post funded.
• 2008/2009 Social lettings agency funded.
• Nov 2009 lettings agency self funding. 110
  landlords, 168 properties. 100 properties _at_395 a
  month37.920
• Agorfa/Cefni work with 317 landlords.
• 1280 tenancies established in past 3 years.
• 46 failed tenancies.
• 94 DIP tenancies, 3 failed.

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Guide to renting in the Private sector

• Before you start, think about
• The private rented sector.
• Paying Rent and financial help.
• The dark art of housing benefit.
• Being in-and out of, work, hospital,
• detox,prison and relationships.
• Looking for a new home.
• Questions to ask landlords.
• Questions to ask yourself.
• Moving in.
• After Ive moved in.
• Flying Solo, checklist.

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Tenancy Notebook
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Tenancy Notebook.an approach .

• Commissioned by DIP.
• Workers and users, More about thinking than
  doing.
• Moving away from budgeting and life skills.
• If you can organise your life around your use,
  then..
• Notebook, Website and training Materials.
• Why it is not simply a guide.
• Pre tenancy, The Move, Flying Solo.Practical,
  financial and emotional.
• Techniques
• Role of Altcourse Prison and MH resource centres.
• Were we are up to.

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Social lettings and management agencies.

• Carry out the same functions as commercial
  agencies tenant finding, property and rent
  management, setting up tenancies and evictions.
• Differences whom they each work with, rent
  levels, voids, provide more support for the
  landlord in order to balance some of the risks
  posed by difficult to house people.
• Effective social lettings agencies, based in the
  community with strong links to both local
  authority and the private rented sector.
• Knowledge of role and profile of the PRS and an
  awareness of the needs and expectations of
  individual landlords.
• Assessment of landlords.
• Recognised in the community as a source of good
  quality, affordable accommodation.
• Practical and financial support for inexperienced
  landlords.
• Recognise that the landlords business interests
  affect availability of accommodation.
• Sell Sustainability.
• Offer the opportunity to develop long term
  working relationships with landlords, important
  in the providing opportunities for tenants.
• Single point of entry into an ordered and
  recognisable local private rented sector

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Bringing it all together.

• Landlord, Tenant, and Agorfa/Cefni.
• Awareness of private rented sector by agencies.
• Working together, understanding the PRS,
  assessment, sharing service users.
• Assessment, from super smashing to not
  engaging
• What failed tenancies say to the sector and
  individuals.
• Creative initiatives emergency accommodation and
  the start of joint working.