A social landlord with more than 2,500 homes across Dumfries and Galloway is set to increase rents by up to seven per cent.
The move would see the weekly rent for a four-bedroom house with Loreburn Housing Association rising by £8.16 to £124.75 – when the cost-of-living crisis is already biting hard.
It is also warning of “a bleak prospect of underfunding in homes” and deferring investment plans as a long-term result of a rent increase of below the current 10.7 per cent level of inflation.
