We have launched a report that includes analysis of rent increase decisions between April 2024 and February 2025 as well as a survey of private tenants conducted between January and February 2025. Together they provide a picture of people' experiences of rent increases in Scotland over the last year and their fears for the year ahead. Continue reading

Today we released a report that finds that three quarters of tenants have been in a joint tenancy agreement. And of those three quarters, nearly half (48.8%) of them have had a rent increase when a flatmate moved out - a so-called joint tenancy increase.  Continue reading

Gorgie/Dalry member Cassidy had no heating for two years, but after going to her local member defence meeting she decided to take on her case.  Continue reading

Faced with 30-78% rent increases in January 2024, tenants at Elfin Square decided to get organised and fight back against their corporate landlord MCR.  Continue reading

This year, Lochend members took the council to task over their unfair property buy-back policy that was seeing private tenants face eviction. By working together, they won a policy change that gives private tenants more security and a right to remain in their home when their landlord decides to sell back to the council.  Continue reading

  Members in Granton have won a 6 month battle against their housing association, C-urb Lettings, and won major repairs in their blocks! Replacement of incorrectly installed windows, replacement of a faulty parking shutter that had been broken for three years, stronger locks on their communal doors for increased safety, and redecoration of communal areas in the building.  Since July the union of residents living in Hesperus Crossway have put a number of demands to C~Urb Lettings. Following the protest on November 14, C~Urb Lettings agreed to speak to the residents' union to negotiate on some of the demands at a meeting later in the day. A spokesperson for Living Rent said after the meeting: "Union members met with C~urb directors today and were still unable to get timelines on repairs, and no commitments to increased security. After years with no repairs to the shutters, tenants were told by C~urb that they're expected to be fixed in 6-7 weeks, but that the housing association still couldn't give a solid date for completion. Members went to action at C-urb's offices, and after two negotiations, the works have been carried out! Direct action and union pressure works. Now, these members are building a new branch of the union in their neighbourhood, and tackling issues that their community is facing. Read about it in the news here: https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/fed-up-edinburgh-tenants-form-30374493