{"id":852,"date":"2020-12-17T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialhousingmatters.co.uk\/?p=852"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:07:25","slug":"northern-irelands-housing-authority-will-be-reclassified-as-a-mutual-but-will-it-also-be-privatised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialhousingmatters.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/17\/northern-irelands-housing-authority-will-be-reclassified-as-a-mutual-but-will-it-also-be-privatised\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland\u2019s housing authority will be reclassified as a mutual \u2013 but will it also be privatised?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Stewart Smyth<\/strong>, University of Birmingham<\/em>. \"\"@smyth_stewart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Minister for Communities at Stormont recently delivered a major statement on housing policy which was then lauded from almost all sides. Stewart Smyth<\/a><\/strong> takes a deeper look at what the Minister said and argues that there is an intention to privatise the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Northern Ireland Minister for Communities, Car\u00e1l N\u00ed Chuil\u00edn (Sinn Fein), recently made a housing policy statement<\/a> at Stormont concerning the future of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to build more social homes. We need to sort out the long term future of the Housing Executive. We need to make sure it can repair its homes, regenerate its estates and start building again. We need to get the Housing Executive building again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NIHE is a concrete lasting reform of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement from the late 1960s. Over the decades since, the Housing Executive has an internationally recognised track-record of improving the quality of public housing and building communities<\/a>. However, like other public services in these islands the neoliberal and austerity years has sought to undermine much of this legacy; yet the NIHE remains hugely popular with tenants and the general population in NI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making general popular statements about saving the Housing Executive is, however, the easy bit; the Minister now has to deliver on these raised expectations. Looking at the statement in more detail, two things become clear: first, there is little substance on how the policy outcomes will be achieved, and second, what was mentioned indicates that privatisation and private sector providers loom large in the Minister\u2019s thinking. It is not spin to say that in the absence of a developed and detailed Sinn Fein housing policy prior to taking on this portfolio, the Minister has acquiesced to the longstanding policy preferences of the top officials in the departments for Communities and Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Housing Rights<\/a>, a Norther Ireland-based non-governmental organisation, has highlighted the proposal to allow the NIHE discharge their statutory duty to provide accommodation for homeless people through offering a private rented sector tenancy. They state<\/a> that \u2018Housing Rights believes the private rented sector in Northern Ireland, as currently regulated, cannot provide a good quality, affordable and sustainable home for homeless families\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not just homeless people who will be thrown to the vagaries of the private sector \u2013 it appears that the NIHE will also be privatised. Of course the Minister does not state this unambiguously and many will no doubt be surprised, especially as Sinn Fein have portrayed themselves in recent years as being on the left of the political spectrum. However, it can be argued that the intention is to use the housing mutual\/co-operative model to privatise the Housing Executive. Here is what we know from the Minister\u2019s appearance at Stormont:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Mutuals and co-operatives are private sector entities. Some may claim that as they don\u2019t pay dividends this does not represent privatisation. This claim misses the main point that once the housing is taken out of the public sector it becomes subject to business-style pressures;<\/li>
  2. Mutuals and co-operatives are private sector bodies according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) rules. These are the rules the Westminster government uses to decide what is considered public borrowing;<\/li>
  3. The Minister clearly stated her intention to reclassify the NIHE, (according to ONS rules); the logic appears similar to that followed in Britain and Northern Ireland, where housing associations were reclassified over recent years to satisfy the ONS that they were, in fact, private sector entities;<\/li>
  4. The Minister talked of allowing the NIHE access to Financial Transaction Capital. In Northern Ireland, such finance is a government subsidy that is only available to private sector entities.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    All these are indicators that the policy being pursued is one of privatisation. It needs to be remembered that this idea to \u2018reclassify\u2019 the NIHE out of the public sector was also announced as part of a plan by the then minister, Nelson McCausland (DUP), back in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The use of mutual\/co-operative model obfuscates that in substance the Housing Executive is being privatised. The establishing of housing mutuals, from former public housing, is often accompanied by a slew of propaganda around greater participation for, or even empowerment of, staff and tenants. However, housing mutuals\u2019 actual track record highlight they do not stop any of privatisation\u2019s negative impacts from occurring \u2013 rents\/charges increase, service levels decrease, tenants lose their accountability mechanisms, as the finance providers exert their dominance, and senior managers reward themselves handsomely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As housing researcher Stuart Hodkinson<\/a> has observed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Regardless of \u2018empowerment\u2019 rhetoric, these mutual models would be run as businesses dependent on open market borrowing, making tenant control (and housing need) ultimately subservient to debt viability and delegated \u2018professional\u2019 management decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fortunately, ordinary people can take matters into their own hands, as tenants and campaigners have done in recent years. As part of the McCausland plan, a pilot scheme of estate transfers from the NIHE to existing housing association was pursued. In 2017\/18 the first two tenant votes took place on estates in Ballyclare and Ballymena. The results were an overwhelming rejection (90% in Ballyclare) of transfer by the tenants. These votes led to the Department for Communities suspending the rest of the pilot scheme. Not only does this indicate how the new privatisation\/transfer policy may be received by tenants, it also shows how to reverse it and keep the Housing Executive in public hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The battle to save the Housing Executive as a publicly funded and publicly accountable body has already taken years. People in Northern Ireland now face another attempt to privatise this lasting legacy of the \u201968 civil rights movement. But they also have the experience and inspiration, locally and across these islands, of tenant- and trade union-led campaigns that have stopped such housing privatisations. The fate of the NIHE is in their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Stewart Smyth <\/a><\/strong>is author of a research report, 21st<\/sup> Century Housing for Northern Ireland<\/a>, for the NI-based trade union, NIPSA. He is Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and a member of its Housing and Communities Research Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This article originally appeared in the LSE and we have permission to republish here. Original link: https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/politicsandpolicy\/nihe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Twitter: @smyth_stewart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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