Shelter Briefing: Social Housing (Regulation) Bill Report Stage

Grenfell United and Shelter strongly welcome the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill.

Five years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, the Government has introduced the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill, which represents a real opportunity to provide fairness and accountability for people living in social housing.

Grenfell United and Shelter are campaigning to ensure that the Bill is robust enough to truly deliver on the promises to provide a proactive system of regulation that effectively holds social landlords to account.

Too many social tenants are living in unsafe, unfit homes that are not being routinely inspected or managed effectively.

To meet the promises made to people living in social housing after the Grenfell Tower fire, the Bill must be amended to:

Ensure the Regulator conducts routine, ‘Ofsted-style’, inspections of social housing landlords, as promised in the Government’s Social Housing White Paper.

See Lord Best’s tabled amendment (17) here

Ensure that senior managers who work for social landlords are properly trained and qualified to manage social housing.

See Baroness Hayman’s amendment (23) here