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<p>The Decent Homes backlog programme provided £1.76 million of funding to local authorities
between 2011/16 to tackle their backlog of non-decent homes.</p><p>The funding by
year as follows:-</p><p>2011/12 - £300 million</p><p>2012/13 - £394 million</p><p>2013/14
- £431 million</p><p>2014/15 - £474 million</p><p>2015/16 - £160 million</p><p>There
was no government funding in years 2009/10 or 2010/11. The number of social homes
failing to meet the Decent Homes standard is down by 55 per cent since 2007 (between
2007 and 2016), with over 626,000 local authority homes brought up to standard since
2009.</p><p>Since the Local Government Self Financing Settlement in 2012 we expect
local authorities to use their rental income to maintain the standard.</p>
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