The Scottish Housing Regulator today published its work plans for 2025/26, which are aligned to its 2024 – 2027 Strategy. The Regulator’s priorities continue to be:
- delivering its statutory functions:
- monitoring, assessing and reporting regularly on the performance of social landlords and the governance and financial health of RSLs
- making regulatory interventions where appropriate
- maintaining a register of social landlords;
- listening to tenants and service users, using their feedback to inform effective regulation, and empowering them by publishing useful performance information about their landlord;
- working closely with, and listening to, all its stakeholders, to help it understand the challenges they face, and to promote a wider understanding of the current and emerging risks that may impact on social housing; and
- being an effective, efficient and open public body and contributing constructively to the Scottish Government’s public service reform agenda.
George Walker, Chair of the Scottish Housing Regulator said:
“Throughout the coming year we will keep a firm focus on the big challenges facing tenants and social landlords, including the cost of living crisis and affordability, the acute problems around homelessness and the number of people in temporary accommodation, emerging requirements on net zero, damp and mould and tenant and resident safety. We will also continue to work closely with all our stakeholders to protect the interests of tenants and others by supporting social housing and delivering shared goals. We aim to make a wider contribution as a Scottish public body, while being extremely mindful of our budget, capacity and how we utilise public funds.”
Notes to editors
- The Scottish Housing Regulator was established on 1 April 2011 under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010. Its objective is to safeguard and promote the interests of tenants and others who use local authority and RSL housing services. The Regulator operates independently of Scottish Ministers and is accountable directly to the Scottish Parliament. It assumed its full regulatory responsibilities on 1 April 2012. The Regulator consists of the Chair and eight Board members. More information about the Regulator can be found on its website at housingregulator.gov.scot.
- SHR’s approach to how it regulates social landlords is set out in its current regulatory framework – Regulation of Social Housing in Scotland.