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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. 

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  • marc quigg
    endorsed 2022-04-12 19:43:35 +0100
  • Teresa Donaghey
    endorsed via 2022-04-12 19:09:47 +0100
    That it should be publicly run and therefore the way it runs is able to be publicly accountable
  • Scott Forrest
    endorsed 2022-04-12 18:48:13 +0100
    Rents to be capped by various factors rather than endlessly rising.
  • Stephen Reid
    endorsed 2022-04-12 18:39:48 +0100
    An affordable social housing build to be carried out.
  • Fiamma Curti
    endorsed 2022-04-12 18:30:05 +0100
    Affordable housing
  • Clara Jones
    endorsed 2022-04-12 18:27:18 +0100
  • Christina Bell
    endorsed 2022-04-12 18:23:18 +0100
  • Sean Watson
    endorsed 2022-04-12 18:20:57 +0100
  • Saskia Drijver-Headley
    endorsed 2022-04-12 18:07:33 +0100
    affordable rent
  • Grace Curtis
    endorsed 2022-04-12 18:05:47 +0100
    housing security and affordability
  • Carmen Hesketh
    endorsed 2022-04-12 17:48:00 +0100
    Rent controls, hold landlords to account, a ban on buy to let mortgages
  • julia liebowitz
    endorsed 2022-04-12 17:32:50 +0100
  • Dannielle Deans
    endorsed 2022-04-12 17:31:32 +0100
  • Isy Haley
    endorsed 2022-04-12 17:13:19 +0100
    Rent Controls, hold landlords to account
  • Flora Waters
    endorsed 2022-04-12 17:12:56 +0100
  • Paige Pope
    endorsed 2022-04-12 17:07:06 +0100
  • Charlie Otter
    endorsed 2022-04-12 17:05:52 +0100
  • Ilya Rasalingam Sayer
    endorsed 2022-04-12 17:01:17 +0100
  • Shona McCombes
    endorsed 2022-04-12 16:47:16 +0100
  • Ewan McNicol
    endorsed 2022-04-12 16:41:00 +0100
  • Penelope Manson
    endorsed 2022-04-12 16:26:39 +0100
    Affordability
  • Jess Galloway
    endorsed 2022-04-12 16:22:57 +0100
  • Marc Jameson
    endorsed 2022-04-12 16:18:48 +0100
  • Elin Crotty
    endorsed 2022-04-12 16:06:48 +0100
    Reasonable prices and also active landlords – not those who hike the prices up year on year without ever improving/fixing their properties. How can they justify what we’re having to pay?
  • Sam Shteinberg
    endorsed 2022-04-12 15:49:39 +0100
  • Eda Ulus
    endorsed 2022-04-12 15:46:04 +0100
    Safe, comfortable, and warm housing for all; Rent controls; Housing policy that is led by the most disadvantaged
  • isaac jackson
    endorsed 2022-04-12 15:42:19 +0100
    radical overhaul
  • Andrew Di Carlo
    endorsed 2022-04-12 15:31:03 +0100
  • Angeliki Roussou
    endorsed 2022-04-12 15:26:22 +0100
  • Mira Waligora
    endorsed 2022-04-12 15:12:49 +0100