By 2010 all tenants in social housing should be living in a “decent home” supporting the Government’s aim of seeing the country’s £20 billion housing repairs backlog tackled. Current Government assumptions, based on the 1996 English House Condition Survey, are that about a third of housing association homes would fail the standard.

The National Housing Federation and the Housing Corporation, in support of the successful implementation of the Decent Homes Standard, have been working in partnership to assess: the number of RSL homes that would currently fail; to ascertain the level of investment needed to meet the standard and to disseminate good practice experience.

The Decent Homes Pilot Study and this website is a major part of the NHF’s commitment to supporting our member’s interests and concerns and improving performance on issues of maintenance, reinvestment and asset management.