Meeting description: To discuss Shelter Scotland's priorities around housing rights. We talked about the new role that the Minister has taken up and our optimism on working closely with the new Minister in the coming years. We discussed the forthcoming Rented Sector Strategy putting forward Shelter Scotland's key asks on fixing the broken housing system delivering more social homes strengthening housing rights and making the system more affordable. This included discussion of rent controls and ensuring the costs of decarbonisation are not passed on to tenants. We also called for COVID-19 emergency measures such as Pre-Action Requirements in the private rented sector and discretionary eviction grounds to be made permanent.
Topic label: Housing