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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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  • Katie Macmillan
    endorsed 2022-04-11 22:13:42 +0100
  • Rachel Lumb
    endorsed 2022-04-11 22:01:18 +0100
  • Louise McCracken
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:57:08 +0100
  • Sophia Grace
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:47:08 +0100
  • Frances Holborn
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:40:42 +0100
  • Beth Gellan
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:40:28 +0100
    Affordability, and a liveable standard.
  • Jordan Ayres
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:31:47 +0100
  • Emma Creighton-Offord
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:22:48 +0100
  • Lynsey Houston
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:19:56 +0100
    Social housing investment and capped rates for private lets
  • Robert Auld
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:15:25 +0100
  • Rebecca Marshall
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:04:46 +0100
    Rent caps
  • Alex Vermeulen
    endorsed 2022-04-11 21:01:52 +0100
    Make letting property unattractive through taxation thus freeing up properties for everyone to own. Landlords do not provide housing, they take away peoples’ rights to housing. Landlords are leeches.
  • Stephen Baxter
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:58:19 +0100
    For everyone to be able to afford a place to live.
  • Lewis Macleod
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:42:11 +0100
  • Stefka Bodurova
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:38:11 +0100
  • Juliet Richards
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:16:51 +0100
  • Meg Dolan
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:16:23 +0100
    Stable rents and the right to have pets
  • Killian Mangan
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:14:26 +0100
    Rents linked to income (tied to 15-20% of monthly income)
  • Aine Laughlin
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:13:37 +0100
  • Joseph Lowit
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:12:45 +0100
  • Natasha Mcgourt
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:07:46 +0100
    Introduce something to make selling with tenant in situ more appealing to landlords. Ie Scot gov pay percentage selling price (or similar incentive)
  • Scot Fullarton
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:05:07 +0100
  • Anne Marie Hardie
    endorsed 2022-04-11 20:02:45 +0100
    Affordable and sustainable housing availability
  • Katy Munro-Main
    endorsed 2022-04-11 19:49:59 +0100
  • Gemma Ballantyne
    endorsed 2022-04-11 19:36:16 +0100
  • Euan Geddes
    endorsed 2022-04-11 19:16:57 +0100
  • Estelle McCool
    endorsed 2022-04-11 18:57:38 +0100
  • James Buchanan
    endorsed 2022-04-11 18:52:09 +0100
  • Kimara Walker
    endorsed 2022-04-11 18:32:21 +0100
  • Ffion Smith
    endorsed 2022-04-11 18:30:02 +0100