The Cave Review 2007, "Every Tenant Matters - A Review of Social Housing Regulation", first described the idea of the regulation of social housing by social housing tenants themselves, termed self-regulation. The TSA is building on this idea by introducing a co-regulatory environment, where the TSA and tenants both undertake a regulatory role. Thus the regulation of social landlords can be more light-touch from the TSA and landlords will become more accountable to tenants.
Tenant scrutiny relates to how tenants can have greater influence in the business direction, governance, constitutional structures and overall service provision of their landlords. Feedback from the many National Conversation events indicate that this is an important issue for tenants. Tenant scrutiny is a key area for the TSA in developing our co-regulatory approach to the overall regulation of the sector and the new regulatory framework.
The Tenant Excellence Fund (TEF) is supporting work in two areas of tenant scrutiny in order to inform the TSA's future policy and practice on co-regulation: