Housing Minister John Healey has announced a full scale assessment of the government's drive to improve England's social housing stock. He called the Decent Homes programme launched in 2001 a "massive national refurbishment of unprecedented scale" with over £33bn invested already to make sure council and housing association tenants live in homes with decent heating, wiring, windows, doors insulation, kitchen and bathrooms. But he said that the poorest performing councils appeared to be going backwards and he wanted to make they were not letting their tenants down and are getting the benefits of the lessons learned by the best. Mr Healey was particularly concerned that 27 local authorities had actually seen an increase in their non decent stock, 13 still had over half their stock non decent and 10 still had a third of their housing stock non decent. Find all the details on the CLG website by clicking on the logo below.
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