Scottish Housing Regulator

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

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has written to social landlords with advice on preparing their Annual Assurance Statements which are due to be submitted by 31 October. In the Annual Assurance Statements submitted in both 2021 and 2022, social landlords were asked to provide the Regulator w

The significant and worsening financial difficulties being experienced by tenants have been highlighted in new research from the Scottish Housing Regulator following feedback from its National Panel of Tenants and Service Users. A quarter of members that responded said they are not managing wel

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has today launched a national discussion on the future of social housing regulation in Scotland.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has published the second briefing in the “Putting Safety First” series. Developed by Campbell Tickell on behalf of the SFHA in partnership with the Association of Local Authority Chief Housing Officers (ALACHO) and CIH Scotland, the

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has today published a report on Lessons Learned on the effective recording of decisions and discussions by governing bodies of Registered Social Landlords (RSLs).

An MSP has called for the Scottish Parliament to instruct an independent KC-led inquiry into some of the Scottish Housing Regulator’s interventions and approach to regulation in general. In a recent speech to the Scottish Parliament, Stirling constituency representative Evelyn Tweed said she f