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SNP promise young people extra help to find affordable housing amid rural crisis

Updated: April 8, 2021, 5:32 pm © Supplied by Community Land Scotl Houses in Ulva Ferry, Mull. Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Young people are being promised extra help to find affordable housing in rural areas where second homes have caused serious problems for locals. The SNP pledge follows claims by Scotland’s finance secretary, Kate Forbes, of a “crisis”, particularly across the north. The party also outlined plans to give renters more protection from “unreasonable” rent increases by allowing councils to cap the cost.

Glasgow Life job face axe as unions demand answers

Exclusive The People s Palace is one of the venues set to reopen following a £100m guarantee from the council, and, right, Unison s Brian Smith UNION reps will meet with Glasgow Life bosses to demand “full transparency” on potential jobs losses due to the impact of Covid-19. Almost all the charity’s income has been lost as the pandemic forces community venues to stay closed. Glasgow City Council announced a “safety net” last week – a £100m guarantee which allows 93 of 162 venues to reopen. But an impact assessment, published with the council’s budget papers, indicated 1000 jobs could be at risk – around 40% of the workforce.

Disgraceful landlords are exploiting tenants amid rent cap proposals

Plans have been drawn up to cap rising rents in Scotland LANDLORDS have hiked up bills and refused to carry out repairs amid plans to give tenants a fairer deal by capping soaring rents. MSPs on Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee have been warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the lack of power tenants have over landlords. The committee heard evidence Labour MSP Pauline MacNeill’s proposals for the Fair Rents Bill, which would halt private landlords from increasing rents by more than the CPI measure of inflation plus one per cent. The Bill is now being considered by MSPs after a u-turn amid initial fears they would not be enough time to consider the plans before the May Holyrood election.

Some landlords have behaved disgracefully in pandemic, MSPs told

Some landlords have behaved ‘disgracefully’ in pandemic, MSPs told February 24 2021, 11.35am Rents have been rising above inflation by around 40% over the last decade in places like Glasgow and Edinburgh (Danny Lawson/PA) Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Some landlords have behaved “disgracefully” during the pandemic, MSPs have heard, hiking up rents and refusing to carry out repairs on properties. More measures are needed to tackle above-inflation rent rises which are swallowing up tenants’ income, Holyrood’s Local Government Committee was told.

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