Now the freeze is being replaced with a cap. For solutions to the housing crisis to work, they need to be permanent
Dundee, the sometimes troubled, often picturesque city on Scotland’s east coast, has generally carried a reputation for affordability. Even in the city’s plush west end, it wasn’t unusual during the 2010s for two people on fairly modest wages to be able to split the rent on a two-bedroom flat in a handsome, enduringly solid Victorian tenement.
This is no longer the case. At the start of the month, new figures showed that rents had soared 33% in a year, putting the city behind only Sunderland as having the steepest increase in the UK, with the average monthly cost of a room in Dundee now £587.
Francisco Garcia is a journalist. We All Go Into The Dark: The Hunt for Bible John is published in April
