Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether their department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the amount offered in decoration allowance following repairs to social housing being carried out by a local authority.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
All registered providers of social housing are obliged by law to maintain the structure and exterior of their properties, and to keep in repair and proper working order sanitation, water, gas, and electricity installations.
Where decoration allowances are inadequate to repair damage to homes, tenants can make a complaint to their landlord. If tenants are unhappy with the way in which their landlord has dealt with their complaint they can escalate matters to the Housing Ombudsman.
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