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Housing Bill passes first parliamentary hurdle
Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh

HOUSING legislation that promises to usher in new and permanent rent controls in Scotland has passed its first parliamentary test.

The Housing (Scotland) Bill would improve the rented sector for tenants, but even with the support of Labour and Green MSPs it was not plain sailing.

Green MSP Maggie Chapman hit out at possible property exemptions in the Bill and clauses allowing above-inflation increases branding them a “capitulation to landlord interests.”

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