Have your say: Draft Rented Sector Strategy: A New Deal for Tenants
Complete SFHA's short survey to share your views.
The Scottish Government recently published its draft rented sector strategy – A New Deal for Tenants – for consultation. The draft strategy:
- seeks to improve accessibility, affordability choices and standards across the whole rented sector in Scotland
- sets out, and invites, views on how to deliver a new deal for tenants to progress the right to an adequate home and deliver the vision for Housing to 2040
- aims to ensure all tenants, whether living in private or social rented homes, can access secure, stable, tenancies, with affordable choices –while also benefiting from good quality homes and professional levels of service and rights.
Some of the key proposals include:
- delivering a new deal for private rented sector tenants that puts them on a more equal footing with social rented tenants, through the introduction of a new Housing Bill in the second year of this parliament
- establishing a regulator for the private rented sector that will enforce defined standards and considering the role of the existing regulator covering social rented housing, through legislation by the end of this parliament
- implementing a national system of rent controls for the private rented sector, while exploring what further action can be taken to ensure rents in the social rented sector are affordable by the end of 2025
- creating a new Housing Standard which covers all homes
- regulating to set minimum standards for energy efficiency and zero emissions heating.
SFHA has created a short online survey to allow members an opportunity to feed into its response.
If you have any questions, please contact Senior Policy Manager Stacey Dingwall at sdingwall@sfha.co.uk