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Summary

This guidance replaces A Decent Home: The definition and guidance for implementation published in February 2004. It has been issued to accompany the launch of the final Decent Homes bidding round for the Round 6 Arms Length Management Organisations (ALMOs) and the 2006 Housing Transfer Programme. The guidance explains a number of Decent Homes policy amendments and seeks to clarify issues that have arisen in the implementation of the programme.

Tremendous progress has been made in delivering the Decent Homes programme, with over half the task being completed and with the last few local authorities putting in place their programmes for delivery. The Decent Homes programme has already made a real difference to the lives of tenants by not only making improvements to social housing but also through improved services. By the time we get to 2010 we expect that, around 3.6 million homes will have had work carried out to them, many more than the 2.2 million non-decent homes we started with in 1997. This additional work will have prevented many homes becoming non-decent, and will have dealt with those that fell below decent between 1997 and 2010.

In revising this guidance, Communities and Local Government (Communities and Local Government - formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister or ODPM) is setting out how it sees social landlords building on the success of the programme working more flexibly to go beyond the Decent Homes programme to undertake more radical solutions to transform some of the poorest neighbourhoods into mixed, sustainable communities.

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