Living Rent

Tenants' union Living Rent is today urging MSPs to vote to protect tenants ahead of the final vote on the Housing Bill later, but say further and bolder action is required if they are serious about tackling the housing emergency. The Housing Bill is a key component of the Scottish Government’s

As the Scottish Parliament prepares to begin its Stage 3 debate of the Housing (Scotland) Bill today, the rent control elements of the proposed legislation have been attracting the most attention.

Scotland’s tenants’ union is calling on the Scottish Government to prioritise tenants and the environment over landlords’ complaints about energy efficiency as they submit their response to the government’s consultation on minimum energy standards in the private rented sector

The Scottish Government’s consultation on the Housing (Scotland) Bill will close today, bringing to an end a heated debate over proposed rent control measures and potential exemptions that have sharply divided landlords and tenants' groups.

The Scottish Government needs to resist calls from landlords to introduce exemptions to the housing bill and commit to strong and robust rent controls that protect tenants, tenants' and trade unions have said. Tenants’ union Living Rent, along with the Scottish Trade Union Congress, Unite, GMB

A group from tenants' union Living Rent has protested outside an Edinburgh letting agency after poor living conditions allegedly forced a couple to move out from their flat. While expecting their first child, Alex (40) and Sinéad (39) were left without adequate heating or hot water for months

Living Rent is celebrating the rejection of an appeal by property developer Stephen G Dalton & Son over proposals to develop a Leith scrapyard site into luxury purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and build-to-rent (BTR) flats.

Members of the tenants' union Living Rent have warned of community destruction unless the City of Edinburgh Council’s Mixed Tenure Improvement Service (MTIS) is improved.

C~URB Lettings has been urged to immediately resolve safety issues that have left a disabled tenant trapped in his home for six months. Lucas Honey, a tenant at C~URB Lettings’ Granton Harbour property, has been unable to independently exit his home since December 2024 due to the letting agenc

A national action plan must be developed to tackle the housing emergency to avoid the risk that the crisis “drifts on indefinitely”, according to a new report published today by a Scottish Parliament committee. A year on from the official declaration of the national housing emergency by

Members of Living Rent, Scotland’s tenants’ union, marched 2.9 miles from Dalry Road to Edinburgh City Chambers to demand that tourist tax funds be used to provide permanent council housing.  

Tenant advocacy groups have raised fears of unaffordable increases for tenants as Scotland’s temporary rent adjudication measures come to an end today.

Tenants' union Living Rent is calling on the Scottish Government to extend protections after highlighting research which shows rent increases could double after the emergency rent adjudication measures end on 31 March. Newly updated Private Residential Tenancy rent adjudication figures have found th

Twenty-six residents from the Dreghorn Estate secured a meeting with the City of Edinburgh Council last week amid an ongoing campaign against the forced evictions of 19 families due to plans to sell properties.

Tenants’ union Living Rent launched a petition yesterday that called on Glasgow City Council to reinvest money raised by its proposed tourist tax into housing and public services.