What’s your experience of renting in Govanhill?

What are your experiences of renting in Govanhill? How have price rises affected you? Have you ever had a dodgy landlord?

Help us to get a picture of how the quality, availability and affordability of housing in our area has changed over time by filling out the survey below

Original image by Dylan Lombard

By Sam Doak

If you live in the Southside, you will most likely be aware that rents have been rising over the last few years. This is not unusual; all across the United Kingdom property prices and rental fees have been rising. What is noticeable, however, is the speed at which this seems to be happening. 

According to the Scottish Government, in the decade leading up to 2020 the cost of renting a two bedroom flat in Glasgow rose by 41%. Last year, rents increased by an average of £73 per month, the largest rise seen in any city in the United Kingdom.

As things stand, there is a lack of publicly available information on how the price of renting has changed on a local level. Because of this, we want to collect perspectives of renters in the area. By filling out our survey, you will be helping us examine how our neighbourhood is changing and the scale of the problems renters face. 

Nobody deserves to be priced out of their neighbourhood and, at a time in which universal credit has been cut and energy costs are rising, aggressively increasing rents are not a cost our community should have to shoulder.