THE Scottish Government’s announcement of a housing bill and rent controls in the Programme for Government last week is the chance to right 40…
THE Scottish Government’s announcement of a housing bill and rent controls in the Programme for Government last week is the chance to right 40 years of wrongs.government encouraged councils to use compulsory purchase orders to forcibly buy up properties from landlords who were charging unfair rents, to ensure more people had access to affordable housing.
£18 billion and permanently changed the perception of social and council housing as an integral part of the UK’s housing make-up. Right to Buy, which Scotland scrapped in 2016, did deep damage to our country. It is hard to overstate the impact it has had not just on the wellbeing of tenants but on the wholeSpiralling house prices have shifted huge amounts of capital from productive uses such as manufacturing to reckless speculative gambling on housing markets.
We demolished 32,000 slumlord-owned properties in Glasgow in the decade after 1954 and replaced them with publicly owned social housing. We penalised landlords for their excesses. Policy was designed in a way that recognised housing as a public good, not an asset for speculators. Landlords, of course, are up in arms. Deep-pocketed legal challenges, well-funded lobbying, and ongoing blackmailing have been the response to the rent freeze and subsequent rent cap. Landlords know rent controls could change everything and they will continue to do all they can to sabotage, water down, delay and weaken it.
In the last decade, as the private rental sector has rapidly expanded, landlords have increased rents by more than 80% in Edinburgh and Glasgow. At the same time, our homes continue to fall further into disrepair. More than half continue to have disrepair to critical elements and a similar amount have the lowest energy efficiency, continuing to leak heat and money.
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