Overview -- Stock and amenities -- Decent homes -- Health and safety -- Damp and mould growth -- Heating and insulation -- Energy performance -- Neighbourhood problems -- Disparities in living conditions -- Summary statistics -- Appendices: decent homes, updated definition and adjusted EHCS interpretation of the thermal comfort insulation requirements; decent homes treatment scale, derivation of the scale; cavity walls 'fillability', developing a scale for the EHCS -- Glossary of definitions and terms -- Further information and contacts

Presents a range of statistics on key government policy areas in relation to housing. The report was created from a sample of 16 670 dwellings. In 2006, 7.7 million from a total of 22 million homes in England were counted as non-decent under the updated definition of the decent homes standard. For the first time, details for CO2 emissions are listed. The average amount emitted was 6.9 tonnes, although wide discrepancies were listed across the sample. Social housing fares well in the report and is more likely to be counted as decent and is also generally more energy efficient (20% of social housing achieved the higher A-C bands for energy efficiency, compared with 4% of owner occupied homes). Private rented accommodation typically demonstrated the poorest energy efficiency, with 10% in the lowest band, G. That said, private rented accommodation is more likely to fall in bands A-C than owner occupied property, so a wide range of standards is to be expected. Headline findings from the 2007 survey will be published in the headline report in January 2009.