A place to stay, a place to call home: a strategy for the private rented sector in Scotland

Footnotes

1 Scottish Government (2011) Homes fit for the 21st Century http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/reform

2 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Performance/purposestratobjs

3 Scottish Government (2012) Evidence Review of the Private Rented Sector in Scotland http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/privaterent/evidencereview

4 There remains a small number of 'regulated tenancies', under the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984, where tenants have a right to a 'fair rent' assessed by a Rent Officer from the Rent Service Scotland ( RSS)

5 Scottish Household Survey 2011

6 http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=14215&p=0

7 Housing Options and Solutions for Young People in 2020

8 No Place to Call Home: The Social Impacts of housing undersupply on young people ( IPPR, 2012)

9 Crook T, Kemp P and Ferrari E (2009) Views and experiences of landlords in the private rented sector. Review of the private rented sector volume 3. Scottish Government

10 Strachan V and Donohoe T (2009) Views and experiences of tenants in the private rented sector in Scotland. Review of the private rented sector volume 2. Scottish Government.

11 Ball M (2010) The UK private rented sector as a source of affordable accommodation. Joseph Rowntree Foundation Housing Market Taskforce. www.jrf.org.uk

12 Evidence Review of the Private Rented Sector in Scotland 2012

13 Of those in Further or Higher Education, 68% live in the PRS

14 See reference 10

15 See reference 10

16 See reference 11

17 Scottish Household Survey (2011)

18 Scottish Government Review of the Private Rented Sector (2009)

19 CityLets Data Source ( www.citylets.co.uk)

20 Ball M (2010) The UK private rented sector as a source of affordable accommodation. Joseph Rowntree Foundation Housing Market Taskforce. www.jrf.org.uk

21 Housing (Scotland) Act 2006

22 Scottish Government Review of the Private Rented Sector (2009)

23 http://www.landlordaccreditationscotland.com/

24 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/access/ROOPH/OPHSS

25 Local Housing Allowance ( LHA) is the housing benefit paid to tenants who rent privately from a landlord and claimed housing benefit after 7 April 2008. There are however some tenants living within the PRS who are still in receipt of housing benefit under the Rent (Scotland) Act 1998 due to their circumstances remaining unchanged. The level of housing benefit for these tenants is determined by the Rent Service Scotland.

26 Evidence Review of the Private Rented Sector (Scottish Government, 2012)

27 Review of Barriers to Institutional Investment in Private Rented Homes (Department for Communities and Local Government, 2012)