Well done, the Green Party. Thanks to their co-leader and Scottish Government tenants’ rights minister Patrick Harvie, some dreadful capitalists have been prevented from milking the poor of exorbitant rent money.
Council housing bosses have said they will only take tenants to court ‘to prompt engagement’ with people racking up rent arrears – as they reverse their ban on council evictions after just two months.
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