Local authority housing business plans could be rendered
unsustainable if the government revises the Decent Homes Standard, it has been
claimed. That warning has come from the Association of Retained Council Housing
(ARCH) after the Social Housing Green Paper proposed revisiting the standard,
which was set in 2006. The green paper said the standard “should be reviewed to
consider whether it is demanding enough and delivers the right standards for
social housing alongside other tenures”. Any review would also look at whether
the energy performance of social homes should be upgraded to at least Energy
Performance Certificate Band C by 2030, where practical and cost effective.
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