The Parliamentary Select Committee published a report called ‘Beyond Decent Homes’ in which it warned that the Department of Communities and Local Government’s (CLG) £40bn Decent Homes programme should target private as well as social housing in the future.
While examining CLG’s success in trying to raise 100% of UK’s social homes to a decent level, the committee noted that it has largely ignored homes for elderly people and people in the private sector, who get no benefits.
CLG is hopeful of support from the government, in the form of effective regulations, which could help it reach its target of providing decent homes by the end of 2010.
Phyllis Starkey, CLG’s Select Committee Member, said, “The Government is to be applauded for providing both the political will and public money with which local authorities and their partner organisations have been able to tackle that problem and pursue an ambitious ten-year goal of a decent home for all in the social sector by the end of 2010.”
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