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• Decent Homes: Capturing the standard at the local level - A supplementary annex to Collecting, Managing and Using Housing Stock Information - A Good Practice Guide (DETR 2000)

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Summary

The government's policy statement The Way Forward for Housing,  published in 2001, stated that all social housing would be made decent by 2010. It would be delivered through the extra resources secured for housing in the spending reviews of 1998 and 2000 and the policies set out in The Way Forward for Housing. A Decent Home is one which meets the following four criteria:

1. it meets the current statutory minimum standard for housing
2. it is in a reasonable state of repair
3. it has reasonably modern facilities and services, and
4. it provides a reasonable degree of thermal comfort.

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