50 - The PRS rent adjudication scheme with Susan Aktemel and Calum Sanderson

The Scottish Housing News Podcast

With the Tenant Protection Bill’s in-tenancy rent cap and eviction measures due to expire in a matter of weeks, the Scottish Government has proposed an adjudication scheme to ease the transition until a long-awaited Housing Bill comes to pass.

Under the proposals, the process for rent adjudication will temporarily be modified from April 1st for one year. Any tenant who wishes to dispute a rent increase notice can apply to Rent Service Scotland or the First-tier Tribunal which will set a fair rent based on a taper formula set out in the new regulations.

But with just weeks before its implementation, it seems neither tenants nor landlords are happy with this new arrangement.

Jimmy Black and Kieran Findlay speak to Calum Sanderson, a member of the tenants’ union Living Rent, and Susan Aktemel, who founded the UK’s first social enterprise letting agency Homes for Good, to find out if there’s another way.

Jimmy Black has written a blog to accompany the episode here:

• https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/blacks-blog-prs-uncertainty-benefits-no-one

Further reading:

• https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/transitional-measures-proposed-as-private-rent-cap-ends

Kieran Findlay is the editor of Scottish Housing News. Jimmy Black is a former Dundee housing convener and housing justice campaigner.

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