This is absolutely essential. Rent hikes in a city that doesn’t have enough housing should be controlled.

I was priced out of the City after almost twenty years. I know many people who struggle paying their private rent on full time work, especially single mums. At the same time landlords are converting family flats into HNO’s for students or letting whole flats into Airbnb properties to maximise profits. This causes social segregation and destroys communities. A rental cap is necessary to avoid turning Edinburgh into a form of Disney style theme park.

Carlos Arricibita

Edinburgh’s housing situation is out of control. The wage gap in the city is growing, pushing those on incomes close to or below the national average further and further out of the City. It is a shameful scandal that while ever more hotels and blocks of student accommodation are built, residents rent continues to rise at astronomical rates. This is unsustainable and its disproportionately impacting those who work in the service industries – which the City relies on for its tourism income and to maintain day to day business. Edinburgh should be ashamed of the apparent race to achieve London’s warped property problems.

Rent has become ridiculously expensive in Edinburgh in the last few years. If rent isn’t controlled it will be a city of only students and tourists.

Jessie Moroney

Ajda Krišelj

Ella Crocker