Local Authority Stock and Non-Decent Homes Provisional Estimates

Provisional statistics on local authority owned non-decent homes provided by local authorities in England for 2009 - 10 were released on Thursday 26 August 2010. A full set of results from local authorities will be published in November - December. Key points from the release are:
* Based on provisional returns, the percent of the social housing stock that was non-decent on 1st April 2010 was 10.2% - down from 14.5% a year earlier.
* For local authority stock only, the percent of non-decent homes declined from 22% to 16.2% while for Registered Social Landlord stock the percent of non-decent homes declined from 8.3 to 5.3%
* Local authority owned stock was estimated to number 1.79 million homes on 1st April 2010, compared to 1.80 million a year earlier.
More than 10 per cent of social housing failed to meet the decent homes standard when the original deadline for compliance passed. The Labour government had initially intended that all homes should meet the criteria by the end of 2010, although it later backed away from that goal as it became clear it was unrealistic. Download the data from the CLG website by clicking on the logo below.