The new government body (mentioned by Harwood Red) will still be monitoring the backlog of homes which have not achieved th Decent Homes Standard
Existing stock | Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)
"Meeting the Decent Homes Standard
The 2010 Spending Review settlement made £1.6bn available to local authority landlords - including those with housing stock managed by ALMOs - to help tackle the backlog of homes that are not meeting the Decent Homes Standard. A total of 46 local authority and ALMO landlords will receive backlog funding over the next four years to help refurbish around 150,000 homes.
The Government also allocated another £510m to fund the existing Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT) Gap Funding Programme. Twenty-four stock transfer organisations will benefit from this additional gap funding, which will contribute towards the cost of bringing poor value housing transferred from local authorities up to the Decent Homes Standard.
Our role
We administer the Decent Homes Backlog Programme on behalf of our sponsor department, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), assessing funding bids from local authorities before making recommendations to ministers on allocations. We continue to work with landlords to maximise the impact of the available funding through our enabling role, helping them to complete their Decent Homes programmes as quickly and cost effectively as possible."