Yet current policies are not promoting new BtR properties
I thought the Greens had fixed it with their rent cap?
Play silly games win silly prizes. Everyone said rent controls wouldn’t work but the morons in Holyrood pressed ahead anyway. Scotland is being so badly led.
Reduce population increase
Increase new builds
Increase social housing builds
Decrease zoning wait times
Penalize landlords increasing rent
Penalize landlords not living or renting property they do not live in and leave vacant.
Penalize companies for buying up housing as a stock.
The only solution is to build, build, build. Supply, demand, price curve. Adam Smith explained this 250 years ago.
Creating laws to give bad tenants power over private landlords simply reduces the number of properties available, thus making the situation worse …. “The Green Party has mandated a £250/month max for flats in Edinburgh. The waiting list for a flat is now 76 years.”
A couple of personal anecdotes …..
I am in the process of renovating my late parents’ home. My original intent was to rent it for a good rate to a young family who could never otherwise afford a place like that, rent or buy …. mum would have been proud. After learning of the consequences of anti-landlord laws, and seeing the bolshie “change the locks, fuck the landlord” attitude on Reddit, I can’t take the risk, it will be sold and that hypothetical young family will sadly have to stay in their wee flat in Dunfermline.
The house next to me in Edinburgh was rented, belonged to a nice retired couple. The last tenant wasn’t a bad one, merely an annoying and entitled princess who pissed off me too. Neil and Anne thought about what might happen with an actual bad tenant and decided to sell up.
That’s two fewer homes available to rent. Well done.
Join your local tenants union – one that is right now demanding that in Glasgow 25% of all houses/flats i developments need to be affordable- in line with Scottish law
In 2007 the last year labour were in charge they built a whole 6 council houses. So at this point I’m waiting on Sarwar demanding we need more when they did very little themselves.
It’s a side effect of WFH and the general unaffordability of housing elsewhere in the UK making much of Scotland a relative ‘bargain’.
But the SNP controlled government have a lot to answer for as well.
You xan thank Patrick Harvie, Lorna slater, sturgeon and humza for this shitshow.
Oh if ONLY someone could’ve said rent controls would do this !!
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Social housing needs to be built on a massive scale… but unfortunately it won’t happen soon enough
https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/scotlands-build-to-rent-market-stuck-in-the-pipeline-says-rettie#:~:text=Build%20to%20Rent%20(BTR)%20involves,have%20been%20delivered%20in%20Scotland.
Yet current policies are not promoting new BtR properties
I thought the Greens had fixed it with their rent cap?
Play silly games win silly prizes. Everyone said rent controls wouldn’t work but the morons in Holyrood pressed ahead anyway. Scotland is being so badly led.
Reduce population increase
Increase new builds
Increase social housing builds
Decrease zoning wait times
Penalize landlords increasing rent
Penalize landlords not living or renting property they do not live in and leave vacant.
Penalize companies for buying up housing as a stock.
The only solution is to build, build, build. Supply, demand, price curve. Adam Smith explained this 250 years ago.
Creating laws to give bad tenants power over private landlords simply reduces the number of properties available, thus making the situation worse …. “The Green Party has mandated a £250/month max for flats in Edinburgh. The waiting list for a flat is now 76 years.”
A couple of personal anecdotes …..
I am in the process of renovating my late parents’ home. My original intent was to rent it for a good rate to a young family who could never otherwise afford a place like that, rent or buy …. mum would have been proud. After learning of the consequences of anti-landlord laws, and seeing the bolshie “change the locks, fuck the landlord” attitude on Reddit, I can’t take the risk, it will be sold and that hypothetical young family will sadly have to stay in their wee flat in Dunfermline.
The house next to me in Edinburgh was rented, belonged to a nice retired couple. The last tenant wasn’t a bad one, merely an annoying and entitled princess who pissed off me too. Neil and Anne thought about what might happen with an actual bad tenant and decided to sell up.
That’s two fewer homes available to rent. Well done.
Join your local tenants union – one that is right now demanding that in Glasgow 25% of all houses/flats i developments need to be affordable- in line with Scottish law
https://www.livingrent.org/join
In 2007 the last year labour were in charge they built a whole 6 council houses. So at this point I’m waiting on Sarwar demanding we need more when they did very little themselves.
It’s a side effect of WFH and the general unaffordability of housing elsewhere in the UK making much of Scotland a relative ‘bargain’.
But the SNP controlled government have a lot to answer for as well.
You xan thank Patrick Harvie, Lorna slater, sturgeon and humza for this shitshow.
Oh if ONLY someone could’ve said rent controls would do this !!
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