Posted 15.04.14
A third of private rented homes in England are failing decency standards according to a new report.
33% of the country's private rented homes would have failed the Government's Decent Homes Standard (the test for social housing introduced in 2000) in 2012, according to analysis in the Chartered Institute of Housing's (CIH) UK Housing Review 2014, which has just been launched.
In contrast, just 15% of social rented homes failed to meet the standard in 2012, down from 29% in 2006.
According to latest figures from the English Housing Survey, in 2012-13 the private rented sector overtook the social rented sector to become the second biggest tenure in England (after home ownership). There are four million private rented households in the country (18% of all households) compared with 3.7 million social rented households (17%).
