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Living Rent launch open letter calling for Glasgow City Council to invest in housing and services using funds from tourist tax
April 21, 2025
Today, we delivered an open letter calling for Glasgow City Council to invest in housing, infrastructure and public services using money from their proposed tourist tax. Read our letter in full below: ...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareLiving Rent launch open letter calling for rent controls in Dundee
April 16, 2025
Today, we delivered an open letter calling for Dundee City Council to commit to implementing rent controls when the Housing Bill comes into law. Read our letter in full below: Dear Councillors,...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareLiving Rent launch open letter calling for Highland visitor levy to support housing crisis
April 10, 2025
Today, we delivered an open letter calling for Highland Council to implement a visitor levy that sees funds go towards the housing crisis. Read our letter in full below:
Read More 1 Reaction ShareLiving Rent report on challenging rent increases
March 24, 2025
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...
Read More 2 Reactions ShareNearly half of tenants in joint tenancies have had a joint tenancy rent increase our survey finds
March 04, 2025
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...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareLiving Rent Edinburgh 2024 Wrapped 💫🏘️
December 30, 2024
Living Rent Edinburgh has had huge successes this year, let's see this year in review.
Read More 1 Reaction ShareCassidy Wins Big against DJ Alexander
December 30, 2024
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.
Read More 1 Reaction ShareWIN! Elfin Square fight their rent hikes
December 19, 2024
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.
Read More 1 Reaction ShareInsulate Lochend Fairly: Win for private tenants!
December 18, 2024
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...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareRent adjudication win for Paul and Sesilia
December 10, 2024
Paul and Sesilia tell their story of fighting their rent hike!
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