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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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  • Eleanor Lim
    endorsed 2022-04-11 18:28:54 +0100
  • Tommy Wilson
    endorsed 2022-04-11 17:48:35 +0100
    Cheaper rents, less bastard landlords, double glazed windows
  • Gina Nelson
    endorsed via 2022-04-11 17:30:17 +0100
    To be affordable and for residents and not tourists and short term holiday let’s.
  • Haofei Chen
    endorsed 2022-04-11 17:28:04 +0100
  • Tanya Rodger
    endorsed via 2022-04-11 17:23:26 +0100
  • Ellen Grant
    endorsed 2022-04-11 17:11:04 +0100
  • Amber Keating
    endorsed 2022-04-11 16:37:58 +0100
  • Sharon Thomas
    endorsed 2022-04-11 16:32:40 +0100
    Affordable housing and minimal profiteering landlords. Would love to see a limit to owning second homes and a capital gains tax when selling, to disincentivise the whole rental market. Social housing & rent caps, please, and minimising Airbnb and other rentals.
  • Ruth Del Fresno Hernández
    endorsed 2022-04-11 16:22:57 +0100
    Affordable rents and more rights for tenants.
  • Bruno Marques
    endorsed 2022-04-11 15:46:45 +0100
  • Theis Kudsk Greve
    endorsed 2022-04-11 15:37:38 +0100
  • Yvonne Johnston
    endorsed 2022-04-11 15:35:34 +0100
    People are struggling to feed their families. They need fair rent and a lot of help with just living.
  • Luke Bradley
    endorsed 2022-04-11 15:28:21 +0100
    Fairer pricing and better treatment for tenants, along with an increase in supply from new construction on brownfield sites and restrictions on the informal holiday let sector (AirBnB etc).
  • Janelle Couper
    endorsed 2022-04-11 15:23:14 +0100
  • Harrison Rowe
    endorsed 2022-04-11 15:05:57 +0100
    Lower rents
  • Rachel Stewart
    endorsed 2022-04-11 14:59:10 +0100
  • Panagiota Theodoridou
    endorsed via 2022-04-11 14:47:24 +0100
  • Panagiota Theodoridou
    endorsed via 2022-04-11 14:46:47 +0100
  • Ryn Branch
    endorsed 2022-04-11 14:44:12 +0100
  • Dafni Kalokairinou
    endorsed 2022-04-11 14:44:05 +0100
    Landlordd need to maintain their properties or not be allowed to rent them. No more mouldy and cold flats.
  • Ioannis Pantzikis
    endorsed 2022-04-11 14:43:10 +0100
  • Lesley Simpson
    endorsed 2022-04-11 14:38:40 +0100
    Enough social housng for everyone who needs it.
  • Iona Blair
    endorsed 2022-04-11 13:57:09 +0100
    affordable rent
  • Caroline Barclay
    endorsed 2022-04-11 13:53:16 +0100
    Affordable rents, rent in Edinburgh far too high. I work and son I am going to be priced out and I live in a housing association home
  • Jennifer Hazel
    endorsed 2022-04-11 13:44:50 +0100
  • Adelle Ansara
    endorsed 2022-04-11 13:26:24 +0100
  • Lewis Whyte
    endorsed 2022-04-11 13:26:01 +0100
  • Rowan Morris
    endorsed 2022-04-11 13:22:48 +0100
  • Rachel Evans
    endorsed 2022-04-11 13:21:45 +0100
    Rent controls.
  • Stewart Campbell
    endorsed 2022-04-11 13:09:46 +0100