Skip navigation

A New Deal for Tenants: Rents Down, Rights Up!

  • Scotland’s tenants need homes we can afford, so that we’re not priced out of our communities.
  • We need security of tenure, not just a place we can stay for a while.
  • We need homes that are warm, so that heating them doesn’t cost the earth.
  • We need access to justice and better enforcement, so that we can defend ourselves when landlords treat us unfairly. 

The Scottish Government has promised to introduce rent controls and greater rights for tenants in this Parliament.
Between December 2021 and April 2022, the Scottish Government consulted on proposed changes to the law.

As Scotland's tenants union, we demanded:

  • AFFORDABLE HOMES: a point-based system of rent controls to bring down housing costs and improve housing quality and a greater supply of social housing

  • QUALITY HOMES: greater and clearer penalties for landlords who refuse to make repairs, as well as clearer incentives for improvements such as energy efficiency

  • SECURE HOMES: greater protections for tenants, including banning winter evictions, making all grounds discretionary and introducing meaningful penalties for breaches of the law

  • HOMES THAT ARE OURS: the right to make it ours by not facing undue restrictions on what we can do, such as having pets or redecorating

  • STRONGER VOICES FOR TENANTS: control over our homes, which means making rent consultation results binding, and ensuring we don’t face repercussions for exercising our rights

Get in touch if you want to get involved locally and push for change. 

6,152 endorsements
5,000 endorsements

Will you endorse Living Rent's response?


3379

  • Jamie McCabe
    endorsed 2022-04-11 09:06:46 +0100
  • Jan Savinc
    endorsed 2022-04-11 08:15:36 +0100
  • Sarah Burns
    endorsed 2022-04-11 07:36:40 +0100
    Security and affordability
  • Georgios Pappas
    endorsed 2022-04-11 07:31:15 +0100
  • Finlay Archibald
    endorsed 2022-04-11 02:36:58 +0100
    Rent Controls to bring down rent to affordable levels
  • Alan Knight
    endorsed 2022-04-11 00:37:54 +0100
  • Javier San Millán Tejedor
    endorsed 2022-04-10 22:37:26 +0100
  • Olanna Horhut
    endorsed 2022-04-10 22:32:14 +0100
  • Michael Williamson
    endorsed 2022-04-10 22:32:08 +0100
    Bring in rent controls.
  • Katy Duff
    endorsed 2022-04-10 22:29:08 +0100
  • Bryan Goh
    endorsed 2022-04-10 22:27:11 +0100
  • Murray Hastie
    endorsed 2022-04-10 21:47:33 +0100
  • Kate Martin
    endorsed 2022-04-10 21:16:01 +0100
  • Edith Dunlop
    endorsed 2022-04-10 20:56:23 +0100
    Affordable rents
  • Sarah Macgillivray
    endorsed 2022-04-10 20:49:03 +0100
    More social housing!
  • Toni Beisel
    endorsed 2022-04-10 20:17:59 +0100
    Affordable rent
  • Paul Barham
    endorsed 2022-04-10 20:17:42 +0100
  • Craig Scott
    endorsed 2022-04-10 20:08:10 +0100
    Rent controls
  • Graye Khare
    endorsed 2022-04-10 18:35:18 +0100
    Affordable rent and properties that are actually fit to live in! Landlords and letting agencies taken to account when they do not do repairs or maintain properties appropriately.
  • Irene McGowan
    endorsed 2022-04-10 18:18:00 +0100
    Price cap on rents and more affordable rental properties. Build more eco homes and with communal facilities to share – ie laundry, household items, tools, etc. More people live alone so communal eco rented homes would be a good investment and create community.
  • Mikaela Loach
    endorsed 2022-04-10 18:14:35 +0100
  • Isabella Meador
    endorsed 2022-04-10 18:07:40 +0100
  • Emily Allan
    endorsed 2022-04-10 18:01:49 +0100
  • Sarah Azari
    endorsed 2022-04-10 17:41:26 +0100
  • Lesley Benzie
    endorsed via 2022-04-10 17:35:28 +0100
    Sustainable, good quality affordable homes!
  • Greg Grant
    endorsed via 2022-04-10 17:34:12 +0100
    Rents are a disgrace. Our generation is being priced out the market and exploited at every turn as people with assets pre-2007 crash are able to hoover up properties on cheap interest rates at our expense. There’s no future for young people here so long as we are working and slaving just to line some boomer’s nest for their retirement.
  • Marianne Benzie
    endorsed 2022-04-10 17:24:07 +0100
    Rental price reductions and caps. Minimum requirements for health and safety standards in respect to the condition of properties before they can be let and increased tenant powers where landlords fail to repair or address problems with the property.
  • Abigail Clemons
    endorsed 2022-04-10 17:21:08 +0100
  • Morag Mcmillan
    endorsed 2022-04-10 17:10:19 +0100
    Affordable heating
  • Ciaran O'Sullivan
    endorsed 2022-04-10 16:57:23 +0100