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Summary

Decent housing is a vitally important component of sustainable communities and it is important for individual households, as poor housing conditions can damage health. The Department of Health sees this as having an impact on their target of narrowing the gap in life expectancy by area and reducing the difference in infant mortality across local authorities.

To secure delivery of decent housing to all social housing tenants the Government set a target, as part of the 2000 Spending Review to make all social housing decent by 2010. This would result in a marked improvement in the living conditions of households whose homes were part of the 1.6 million that fell below this standard in 2001. This commitment was reaffirmed in July 2002 as part of the 2002 Spending Review.

Since the target was set progress has been made. On available evidence the milestone of a one-third reduction in the number of homes below the decent homes standard by 2004 will be met. But there is sufficient evidence from local authorities' current business plans to suggest achievement of the 2010 target is at risk. The PSA Plus Review was set up to assess this risk by identifying shortcomings in the current decent homes delivery plan and recommend changes to improve it.

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