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# Scotland: Tenants 'sidelined' as landlords lobby for Covid-19 subsidies (The Ferret, 28 July 2020)

* **Tenants 'sidelined' as landlords lobby for extra Covid-19 subsidy**
* By Ally Tibbitt. Published on The Ferret on 28 July 2020
* <https://theferret.scot/landlord-lobbying-coronavirus-subsidy-living-rent/>
* **Summary**:
  * In Scotland, landlord lobbyists **pressured Scottish Government officials for further coronavirus subsidies.** Lobby groups also wanted to open the scheme up so that private landlords with more than five rental properties could benefit.
  * “Although the scheme currently remains limited to landlords with five our fewer properties, action notes show that civil servants responded to the call by offering a [dedicated email for landlords](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6998387-2-10-PRS-Resilience-Group-Meeting-Three-30-April.html#document/p2/a572553) who did not qualify for the existing scheme so they could set-out their circumstances.”&#x20;
  * The article quotes the figures provided by the Scottish Government that indicate **that 30 subsidised loan offers have so far been made to landlords, and only nine of the approved loans cover properties that are occupied.**
* **Keywords**: coronavirus, Covid-19, UK, Scotland housing conditions, subsidy, tenants rights, landlords, private landlords, lobbying