Tens of thousands of homes 'not in the state they should be', says Housing Secretary Michael Gove
Tens of thousands of homes are "not in the state they should be", Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said.The government has since stripped the association involved, Rochdale Boroughwide Housing , of £1m in expected funding.Asked on BBC Breakfast if RBH should be able to carry on, Mr Gove said the housing association had "failed" but there are signs the provider knows it needs to improve.
He said legislation, expected in the next calendar year, would give "additional powers" to housing authorities and ensure the voices of tenants were "heard more clearly".Two-year-old Awaab died in December 2020 after developing a respiratory condition brought on by the state of the social housing he was living in.
Mr Gove said RBH and other housing associations already have the resources needed to deal with repairs, but "poorly run" organisations should not get more public money. There are a "significant" number of homes - some built in the 1960s and 1970s "that simply need to be properly repaired and properly maintained", he said.
The government has said RBH will not get £1m in funding it had been set to receive from the fund, or receive any new AHP contracts, until it can "prove it is a responsible landlord".The AHP is a government scheme that provides grants to contribute towards the cost of building affordable housing. Announcing the latest measures, Mr Gove said RBH had "failed its tenants" and would "not receive a penny of additional taxpayers' money for new housing until it gets its act together and does right by tenants".on Tuesday, the association acknowledged it had "got things badly wrong" and said the "whole organisation… is completely focussed on putting things right for our customers".
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