Nearly £11 million in rent arrears is owed to Edinburgh City Council after the number of tenants in debt rose by 2,000 during the pandemic.
At the end of March 8,542 tenants - roughly 40 per cent of all registered with the council - had racked up rent debt with the local authority, compared to 6,534 in 2020.
The 30 per cent rise seen over the least two years, during which time the total value of unpaid rent increased by £4,594,288 to just under £11m, was revealed in a freedom information request by the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
