PI's: Decent Homes Standard
Stock Condition & Asset Management: Decent Homes Standard
RP01: Percentage of homes that fail to meet the Decent Homes Standard
Rationale, Definition & Worked Example
Below you can find information regarding the rationale, definition and formula for this performance indicator. This includes a worked example to demonstrate how this indicator should be calculated.
Rationale
The RSH require this TSM to be collected for all LCRA homes.
For full details of the RSH requirements and links to TSM Guidance, click here.
This metric was introduced by the English Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) in April 2023 as one of a suite of Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs). It is a regulatory requirement that all Registered Providers (RPs), regardless of size, collect and report the TSMs to their tenants.
This TSM effectively replaces NI 158 – Percentage of homes that fail to meet the Decent Homes Standard which has been widely used by the sector for some time. To preserve time series analysis Acuity has simply rebadged NI 158 – Percentage of homes that fail to meet the Decent Homes Standard as RP01 Homes that do not meet the Decent Homes Standard. Any differences in wording between the new and old definitions Acuity considers to be minimal. However, when reporting your results over time, good practice suggests you should note this.
Providers must use Decent Homes Standard Guidance published by the Government to determine whether a dwelling unit meets this Standard. This guidance sets out certain circumstances in which a dwelling unit should not be reported as non-decent (for example if making a home decent is against a tenant’s wishes); dwelling units to which these specific circumstances apply should not be included in Part A of the TSM calculation. The current guidance is available through www.gov.uk.
Definition
The percentage of the landlord’s LCRA homes that do not meet the Decent Homes Standard at the end of the reporting period.
A home is considered non-decent if it fails to meet one or more of the criteria set out in the Government’s Decent Homes Standard (including statutory minimum standard, state of repair, modern facilities and thermal comfort).
Only homes to which the Decent Homes Standard applies should be included. Homes that are exempt under the Government’s guidance (for example where improvement works are refused by the tenant) should be excluded.
The measure is calculated as the number of non-decent homes divided by the total number of applicable homes, expressed as a percentage.
Formula
Divided by
B. Number of dwelling units owned to which the Decent Homes Standard applied at year end.
Multiplied by 100.
Worked Example
The metric would therefore be calculated as:
RP01 = (A * 100)/B
Or in this case:
RP01 = (10 * 100) /450
RP01 = 2.22%