Former Dundee housing convener and housing justice campaigner Jimmy Black and Scottish Housing News editor Kieran Findlay speak with Dundee City Council’s neighbourhood services convenor Cllr Anne Rendall who reflects on £4.4 million of faulty roofs, keeping rents down, and building new houses in Dundee. The attention then turns to the private rented sector with Professor Douglas Robertson, who has chaired the Scottish Government’s Private Rented Sector Strategy Group which steered the reforms introduced by the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016.

He outlines the challenges of decarbonising tenements, particularly in a situation where many suffer from leaky roofs!

Professor Robertson is currently involved in Rent Better, a three year research programme funded by the Nationwide Foundation into private renting in Scotland. (Rent Better invites landlords and tenants to contribute their views below:

https://rentbetter.indigohousegroup.com/call-for-landlords-and-letting-agents/

https://rentbetter.indigohousegroup.com/call-for-private-renting-tenants/

Jimmy Black has written a blog to accompany the episode, here:

https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/article/podcast-carbon-neutral-i-don-t-see-how

A feature on the pioneering retrofit of a pre-1919 tenement to Passivhaus enerPHit standards being undertaken on behalf of Southside Housing Association in Glasgow that was mentioned in the episode is available here:

https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/article/retrofitting-niddrie-road-the-pre-1919-tenement-undergoing-a-21st-century-revamp

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