Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 15th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on people’s safety of changes in the level of funding for social housing repairs.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 23rd October 2018

Social housing must be safe and decent. Between 2011 and 2016 we provided a total of £1.76 billion through the Decent Homes Programme helping reduce the proportion of non-decent homes from 20 per cent of all social housing in 2010 to 13 per cent of all social housing in 2016. The Social Housing Green Paper considers if the Decent Homes Standard is demanding enough and delivers the right standards for social housing alongside other tenures. We will consider the evidence from the review to inform future steps.

In the meantime, we are providing support so that social sector building owners can address specific fire safety issues. Government is funding the removal and replacement of unsafe aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding systems on social residential high-rise housing in England owned by social landlords. We will continue to accept applications from social sector building owners if required. We will also provide financial flexibilities for local authorities who require support to manage other essential fire safety work.

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