Tigger wrote:


Aye, but it is lost income - as a landlord, it's just costing them money to have properties lying empty. That money could pay for improvements to social housing. They will still need maintained.

If they can't fill the housing they have, they should be advertising outside of East Ren.

lasercow wrote:

Tigger wrote:


Tigger you are correct but having empty properties whilst building more is not fiscally prudent. I perhaps could have worded it better but it is symptomatic of the malaise of aimless drifting in ERC which costs money.
Further the ScotGov increase has now been 100% handed to ERC which wasn't the basis on which they passed the budget. Further you'll be aware that an northern hotelier took a stance against the massive business rates increase at the ScotGov has backed down.
Given those two facts the Briefing Notes team are considering whether we should be asking if residents are in the mood for a fight over the 3% increase which we believe ERC can no longer justify.
All feedback welcome.

The figure of 72 empty properties must include properties that are vacant due to repairs being carried out, death of the tenant or awaiting a new tenant moving in. It would be more useful to know how many properties have been empty for more than a month.

thecon wrote:


True, that would be more useful!