Recommendation 9

The ultimate responsibility for ensuring that existing and future social housing is fit for habitation lies with the housing providers. Those housing providers facing the highest maintenance costs may not be the most financially resilient. Nonetheless, where registered housing providers have homes that require major improvements and significant reserves, the Regulator of Social Housing should encourage them to deploy their reserves to remediate and regenerate their existing properties, or to replace them with new ones if necessary. In response to this Report, the Regulator should set out what steps it is doing to achieve this and its assessment of how successful it believes the steps that it has taken have been.