text: The pressure on Housing Associations to perform commercially has also meant that many are moving away from their original purpose of providing social housing to becoming fully fledged commercial developers in their own right with the advantage that they enjoy special privileges arising from their status as "social landlords" - This combined with the lack of any effective accountability has given rise to conflicts over the ways that RSLs have managed their portfolios of public assets with evidence that there has been an overemphasis towards profitable redevelopment rather than and to the detriment of social housing provision