With rents across Scotland getting more and more extortionate, a lot of tenants are being forced to rely on Housing Benefit, or the Universal Credit Housing Element that is slowly replacing it. This includes...

On 12 May, Dundee’s City Square was buzzing as Living Rent Dundee rolled out our ‘Unfair Funfair’ outside Dundee City Council, calling loud and clear for rent controls.

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:  ...

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,...

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:

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...

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...

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. 

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. 

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...