The Regulator of Social Housing’s mould and damp survey
In late November, the Regulator of Social Housing has wrote to registered providers of social housing to highlight their responsibility to take action to protect tenants from hazardous damp and mould.
The regulator asked housing providers to provide evidence of:
their approach to assessing the extent of damp and mould issues in their homes
their most recent assessment of the extent of damp and mould hazards
the action they are taking to remedy them, and
the process they have to identify and deal promptly with damp and mould cases when they are raised by tenants.
The striking thing about this is that there is no agreed framework within which housing providers can ‘assess the extent’ of damp and mould.
Given that HouseTest’s qPCR test for mould can be rolled out at pace and at scale, we hope that in the near future begin to adopt routine mass screening for mould levels in their properties.
The data that HouseTest provide on mould levels are robust and reliable, and can easily be built into standard reporting framework.
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