Muirhouse Deserves Better
Muirhouse tenants demand Council act on housing problems
Members of Living Rent descended on the Council North Office in West Pilton on 5th of March to demand action on housing problems in the Muirhouse high rises. The main issues highlighted were: dysfunction-ing lifts, leaking roofs, ongoing lack of repairs despite critical issues, and lack of clean up in communal areas. The main manager George Norval came out of a meeting to meet the residents and promised to act on the serious situations they outlined.
The Living Rent members stressed that residents are regularly trapped in their flats due to the frequent failings of the lifts in 14 storey Birnies Court. One lift hasn’t worked for months and the other frequently fails. This especially hits residents with children, the elderly, and disabled.
A resident commented: "Since their long drawn-out installation both new lifts have been problematic, frequently trapping tenants inside or just breaking down. On a few occasions both lifts have conked out simultaneously, leaving tenants to climb the stairs."
The Problem of Rent: One-day Symposium
THE PROBLEM OF RENT brings together contributors to the recently published Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle and housing activists.
Living Rent launches it's proposal for Rent Controls
We’ve launched our proposals for rent controls in Scotland, seeking to control the price of housing, improve quality and tackle gentrification in our cities. More than being another policy, rent controls push back against the power that landlords have over tenants, by ensuring what landlords charge is equivalent to the property’s standard. All renters will benefit from this change but especially the young, black and minority ethnicity communities, migrants and the working class people as they earn less and are disproportionately represented in the private residential sector.
Living Rent in Manchester
Living Rent made a wee trip down to share ideas with ACORN Manchester
Seize the Fees: Storm the Castle
An update on our Seize the Fees campaign and an overview of the challenges we have faced with both Castle Residential and the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL)
2019: Living Rent is hiring in Glasgow
Living Rent starts 2019 with expansion plans and possibilities!
After successfully securing funding From Foundation Scotland and Big Lottery, Living Rent is recruiting for two part-time positions in Glasgow: one organiser and one casework coordinator [with administrative support responsibilities]. Please see below for the description of the two positions.
