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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Private tenants in Scotland ‘face big rent rises and mass evictions’ from April

View of row of traditional sandstone tenement apartment buildings in Glasgow West End, Scotland
Living Rent said tenants in Glasgow and Edinburgh were already paying ‘more than half their take-home pay on rent’. Photograph: Urbanmyth/Alamy

Private tenants in Scotland are facing big rent rises and mass evictions as emergency protections expire at the end of next month, campaigners have warned.

The Scottish government has “in effect rubber-stamped rent increases from April”, says Ruth Gilbert, the national campaigns chair of the Scotland-wide tenants’ union Living Rent, while transitional measures are inadequate and confusing, leaving many unaware what their legal rights are.

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