The Bill has 7 Parts.
Part 1 makes provision about rent including the designation of rent control areas.
Part 2 makes provision about dealing with evictions, including duties to consider delaying evictions and the amount of damages for unlawful evictions.
Part 3 makes provision about residential tenants keeping pets and making changes to let property.
Part 4 makes provision about other matters relating to tenants including unclaimed tenancy deposits, registration of letting agents, ending joint tenancies, delivery of notices by social landlords and converting assured tenancies into private residential tenancies.
Part 5 makes provision about homelessness prevention including duties of relevant bodies, assessment of housing support services and supporting tenants affected by domestic abuse.
Part 6 makes provision about other housing matters including mobile homes, fuel poverty and disclosure of information to the new homes ombudsman.
Part 7 makes provision about commencement and other ancillary matters.
As with all Bills, the Finance and Public Administration Committee invites written evidence on the estimated financial implications of the Bill as set out in its accompanying Financial Memorandum (FM).
Read the FM for this Bill: Financial Memorandum.
The call for views closed on 4 June 2024.
The Committee received 21 submissions to its call for views. Read the submissions on Citizen Space.
Letter from the Convener to the Minister for Housing of 25 June 2024
Letter from the Minister for Housing to the Convener of 17 July 2024