Private Sector Rent Reform

As an amendment to motion S4M-11763 in the name of Mary Fee (Private Sector Rent Reform), leave out from “notes with concern” to end and insert "recognises that, in May 2013, the Scottish Government published A Place To Stay, A Place to Call Home, which is Scotland’s first ever strategy for the private rented sector; welcomes the progress that has been made in implementing the strategy, in particular the publication by the government of the consultation on its plans to improve security of tenure for tenants in the sector while providing appropriate safeguards for landlords, lenders and investors; notes that, in most parts of Scotland, rents rose by less than inflation between 2010 and 2014 and that the consultation invites views on rent levels in the sector; considers that the government’s approach to reforming the private rented sector will deliver the outcomes sought by Shelter Scotland’s campaign, Make Renting Right; encourages stakeholders from all sides to respond to the government’s consultation, and looks forward to stakeholders’ views being reflected in the bill to reform private tenancies that the Scottish Government plans to bring forward later in the parliamentary session”.