Fears grow of SNP rent controls ‘betrayal’

ANY watering-down of rent controls by Scotland’s SNP government would amount to a shameful betrayal of tenants, Scottish Greens said today.
The SNP pledged to deliver rent controls in this parliament and the policy was central to the party’s now-defunct coalition deal with the Greens.
But First Minister John Swinney raised concerns of a reversal last week when he told Holyrood of the need to create “certainty for tenants while also encouraging investment.”
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