‘Social housing is a sector full of opportunities’: Inside Housing launches Housing Hires campaign

Earlier this month, in front of a conference hall packed full of finance professionals, Fiona MacGregor, chief executive of the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH), veered into something approaching a recruitment drive for the sector.

“Let’s try and make the sector a place that people want to work,” she told delegates at the Social Housing Finance Conference. “Let’s not demonise it.”

Why might recruitment and retention be on the RSH’s mind? Well, there was a clue earlier in her speech.

“Providers continue to report labour shortages,” she stated, “in particular in relation to repairs and maintenance, which is slowing delivery in a period in which we continue to see both increased investment in improving the quality of existing homes and forecasts in stock investment also continuing to increase.”

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