evidence: - 23% or 990,000 occupied private rented sector dwellings are estimated to fail the Decent Homes Standard. This is a higher proportion than in the social rented sector (10% or 380,000 dwellings) and in the owner occupied sector (13% or 2 million dwellings). [...] Similar proportions of private renters and owner occupiers lived in homes rated A to C, though private renters (14%), were more likely to live in the least energy efficient homes rated E to G than owner occupiers (10%). Private renters generally lived in poorer performing homes compared with social renters. Over one in ten homes in the private rented sector had an EER of E to G (14%) compared with just 3% of the social rented sector. [...] Base: all dwellings in the private rented sector