Scottish Housing Regulator

Scottish Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) have shown resilience, securing £578 million in new financing and maintaining the confidence of both lenders and investors, but the sector continues to face significant challenges, the Scottish Housing Regulator has said.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has written to social landlords to request comprehensive information about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) to help provide a clear national assessment of its use in social housing in Scotland and to assist in the development of an appropriate p

The Scottish Housing Regulator has launched a public consultation, seeking opinions on its upcoming strategies for supervising social housing practices in Scotland. With a submission deadline set for 15 December, the initiative encourages feedback from tenants, landlords, and other stakeholders, emp

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) is strengthening the cyber resilience of the secure password-protected area that social landlords use to submit data returns and notifiable events.

Bridgewater Housing Association has improved its policies and procedures relating to tenant safety after it identified issues with its gas servicing programme. The Association self-referred to the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) when a change of contractor led to 36 of its properties not being

Work carried out by the Scottish Housing Regulator during 2022/23 to safeguard and promote the interests of tenants, people who are homeless, and others who use the services of social landlords has been highlighted in a new report. Newly published annual report and accounts for 2022/23 revealed that

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) is engaging with Lochalsh & Skye Housing Association as it seeks to comply with three regulatory standards and other regulatory requirements. In a new engagement plan for the association, the Regulator said it engaged with Lochalsh & Skye in Septembe

Scottish Housing Regulator vice chair Andrew Watson summarises the August meeting of the Regulator's Rural and Islands Landlord group. Last month we met with the standing group which brings together senior leaders from Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) that operate primarily in rural areas and the

Scottish Housing Regulator board member Marieke Dwarshuis shares the deatils from the latest meeting of its urban landlord group. We meet regularly with three standing groups of senior people from Registered Social Landlords to discuss important and topical issues in social housing in Scotland. Take

North Lanarkshire Council has ensured its tenants and residents have improved access to housing information by signing the Scottish Housing Regulator’s Assurance Statement.

The performance of social landlords against the standards and outcomes of the Scottish Social Housing Charter has continued to show positive signs despite the impact of ongoing challenges facing them and their tenants, the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) said today. Publishing findings from its&nbs

CIH Scotland has published its response to the Scottish Housing Regulator's (SHR) call for views on the regulatory framework with a concern that prioritising regulatory focus could hamper the ability of social landlords to have a flexible approach to meeting the needs of tenants.

Jimmy Black and Kieran Findlay spent half an hour with the Regulator chatting about dampness and mould, tenant participation, homelessness, small RSLs, big landlords helping little landlords, the private sector and meeting the net zero challenge.

The current framework for regulating social landlords in Scotland was introduced in 2019. Since then, tragic incidents here in the UK and worldwide events have changed how RSLs are expected to operate, possibly forever. So in this episode, we’re asking whether the way RSLs are regulated should

The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published the findings from its thematic review of social landlords’ Annual Assurance Statements highlighting a range of positive practice in how landlords prepared their Statements. All social landlords are required to submit an Annual Assurance Statem