Holyrood and housing

The report published yesterday on Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) by Communities Scotland, the social housing regulator, is disappointing on several fronts. For GHA itself, the regulator's assessment of performance in the first four years of its existence does not amount to a ringing endorsement. There are four ratings and GHA managed only the third grade, C, equating to a fair performance. Given the role GHA was expected to play in transforming Glasgow's crumbling public housing stock - improving quality of life and opening the door on opportunity in the city's deprived areas in the process - the assessment is unsatisfactory.