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Where Landlords Stand A Where They Stand project

What social landlords in England are like, from what the regulator and the Housing Ombudsman publish.

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YMCA St Paul's Group

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Rents out about 1,255 homes in England. This is the number of tenants in rented homes it counted for its 2025/26 tenant survey.

Source: [3]

The regulator's grade

The Regulator of Social Housing has not yet given YMCA St Paul's Group a grade for how it treats tenants.

Source: [1]

How it compares

We compared YMCA St Paul's Group with 118 similar landlords: housing associations and for-profit landlords, 1,000 to 9,999 homes. These are tenants' answers to the 2025/26 survey and the landlord's own records.

Overall satisfaction: 71.2% of tenants were happy with the service. That puts it in the bottom quarter of similar landlords.

Repairs and homes: in the bottom quarter.

Being heard: in the lower middle.

Neighbourhood: in the top quarter.

Top quarter means it did better than at least three in four similar landlords. Bottom quarter means it did worse than at least three in four.

Source: [3]

Complaints to the Housing Ombudsman

The Housing Ombudsman did not publish figures for YMCA St Paul's Group for 2025-26. It does this for landlords with 5 or more findings in a year.

Safety checks

All done. Every home that needed a gas, fire, asbestos, water or lift safety check had one (as at 31 March 2026).

Source: [3]

The figures, 2025/26

MeasureFigureAmong similar landlords
Repairs and homes
Satisfied with repairs74.1%lower middle
Satisfied with how long the last repair took58.7%bottom quarter
Satisfied the home is well maintained74.3%lower middle
Homes that don't meet the Decent Homes Standard0.0%top quarter
Non-emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time89.0%upper middle
Emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time85.5%bottom quarter
Being heard
Satisfied the landlord listens and acts68.2%lower middle
Satisfied the landlord keeps them informed77.9%lower middle
Agree the landlord treats them fairly and with respect85.5%upper middle
Satisfied with how complaints are handled25.7%bottom quarter
First-stage complaints answered in time94.3%lower middle
Second-stage complaints answered in time77.8%bottom quarter
Neighbourhood
Satisfied communal areas are clean and well kept78.4%top quarter
Satisfied the landlord helps the neighbourhood82.2%top quarter
Satisfied with how anti-social behaviour is handled71.6%top quarter
Shown but not compared
Satisfied the home is safe81.9%
First-stage complaints per 1,000 homes83.7
Second-stage complaints per 1,000 homes14.3
Anti-social behaviour cases per 1,000 homes211.2
Anti-social behaviour cases involving hate incidents per 1,000 homes7.2

Source: [3]

Where it has homes

Homes it owns in each council area, 31 March 2026. We added up the figures for each company in the group.

Source: [2]

Compare with other landlords

Earlier names: YMCA St Paul’s Group.

Where these figures come from

Every figure on this page comes from one of these published files. We do not change them.

  1. Regulator of Social Housing, Regulatory Judgements and Enforcement Notices Table (current). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
  2. Regulator of Social Housing, Private registered providers data release (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
  3. Regulator of Social Housing, Tenant Satisfaction Measures Full Dataset (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.