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Rent control in Scotland is based upon thestatutory codes relating to private sector residentialtenancies. Although not strictly within the private sector, tenancies granted byhousing associations, etc., are dealt with as far as is appropriate in this context. Controlling prices, along with security of tenure and oversight by an independent regulator or the courts, is a part ofrent regulation.
RegardingRent Act 1977 legislation, when the legislation deals solely with the law applicable to private sector residential tenancies, the act usually covers,mutatis mutantis, both Scotland andEngland and Wales; but when the legislation also covers other matters, it is more customary for separate parallel acts to be promoted. Examples of the first category are all the pre-1939 war Acts and theRent Act 1957,Rent Act 1965, andRent Act 1974; and of the second, theHousing Act 1980, in Scotland this is theTenant's Rights Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980; and theHousing Act 1988, in Scotland this is theHousing (Scotland) Act 1988.
In September 2022, theSturgeon government capped rent rises to 3% and enacted an eviction moratorium in response tothe cost-of-living crisis.[1] In February 2024,Living Rent sent anopen letter toHumza Yousaf arguing that the removal of protections would have "disastrous consequences" and that renters had been "pushed to the edge".[1] The measures ended on 31 March 2024.[2]