title: The effects of ‘Secure Warm Modern’ homes in Nottingham: Decent Homes Impact Study
abstract: The Decent Homes Programme (DHP) was introduced by the UK Government in 2000 to address 'a large backlog of repairs in local authority housing, estimated at 19 billion in 1997'.It aimed at improving the homes of social housing tenants, making them 'warm, wind-and weather-tight, and with reasonable modern facilities', based on a defi ned 'Decent Homes Standard' (National Audit Offi ce, 2010).Nottingham City Homes (NCH) initiated its 187m Decent Homes Programme in 2008, branded locally as Secure, 
journal: Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository)