It is considering commissioning research into how the process would work and where the line would be drawn over how far it could go in terms of including different tenures.
The most recent ODPM figures show that in England, registered social landlords are expected to complete 13,330 homes in 2002/3 – down from 14,326 in the previous year.
Taking into account affordable housing and homes built by RSLs without grant from the corporation, particularly larger developing RSLs, could boost the total to as many as 20,000 completions.
In December the corporation outlined its intention to incorporate more of RSLs' diversified activities under its new approach to investment – proposals for which are due to be presented to ministers in the next two weeks.
It asked those submitting bids to become one of the handful of corporation development partners to include details of schemes that did not require social housing grant as part of the their submissions.
If you’re doing something good and no one knows about it, then you need to sort it out
Peter Dixon, chairman, Housing Corporation
Housing Corporation chairman Peter Dixon said: "The point is simple. RSLs do a lot of things without grant that they don't get credit for just now. We want to ensure we count these schemes.
"It could run to 4000-5000 homes that, right now, we simply don't measure. Doing this is a no-brainer. If you're doing something good and no one knows about it then you need to sort this out."
Dixon added that the enhanced measure would not "confuse the true picture" as the corporation would clearly mark which homes were built as a direct result of its investment and which were more indirectly linked.
n Housing Corporation chairman Peter Dixon plans to "refine" the present system of traffic light ratings used to represent the performance of housing associations to "distinguish better between the good and great performers".
Source
Housing Today
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