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Homes and Communities Agency
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) will be the national housing and regeneration agency for England. With an investment budget of over £5 billion per year, its scale and resources mean it can bring about a step change in housing supply, and enhance people’s quality of life by creating and regenerating communities where people want, and can afford, to live.
The HCA will bring together English Partnerships, the Housing Corporation’s investment arm and the Academy for Sustainable Communities, with some delivery functions of Communities and Local Government. Sir Bob Kerslake will become its first Chief Executive on 1 December 2008. He is currently working with a Set-up Team to establish a responsive, adaptable agency that will help local authorities and their partners meet the ambitions they have for their areas. This will enable the HCA to achieve national targets for growth, renewal and affordable housing in a sustainable way that corresponds to the needs of local places.
The HCA’s regional teams will engage with local authorities in a single conversation about housing and regeneration. Together with its partners, the agency will develop an understanding of local housing growth needs, how to improve areas through regeneration and how HCA investment can be used to meet the ambitions of these areas.
English Partnerships’ current Chairman, Robert Napier, was named as Chairman of the HCA in June this year. A month later, the Housing and Regeneration Bill received Royal Assent to become an Act, paving the way for the creation of the new agency on 1 December. A joint approach to identifying and delivering housing and regeneration objectives was also agreed with the Local Government Association in July.
The senior team, announced in September, will be in place by 1 December to begin single conversations in local areas and develop a joint approach towards delivering the HCA's programme.
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For further information please download the What is the Homes and Communities Agency? brochure from the Publications page.
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