The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published the 2025 Annual Assurance Statements submitted by social landlords. The Regulator requires all social landlords to submit a Statement each year to confirm that they meet regulatory requirements or to set out how they will address any areas of non-compliance.
This year, the Regulator also asked landlords to provide specific assurance in their Statements about their compliance with their obligations in relation to tenant and resident safety.
In their Statements 148 landlords said they were compliant with regulatory requirements. 12 landlords told us they did not comply with the regulatory requirements; the reasons for this non-compliance include failing to comply with homelessness duties, tenant and resident safety duties or regulatory requirements.
Michael Cameron, Chief Executive at the Regulator said:
“Social landlords continue to operate in a challenging economic environment while striving to deliver homes and services at rents tenants can afford and facing rising costs and increasing demands, including around housing quality.
“Scotland’s homelessness system continues to experience significant challenges, and in their Statements this year some local authority landlords again told us about the difficulties they face meeting their statutory duties in relation to homelessness, including the requirement to provide suitable temporary accommodation.
”We will assess the Statements as part of our annual risk assessment, taking into account the challenging context for landlords. We will publish the outcomes from the risk assessment in updated Engagement Plans for each landlord. This will include any changes to the regulatory status for RSLs."
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 seven Board members. More information about the Regulator can be found on its website at www.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.