A Labour MSP has blasted the Scottish Authorities after it dominated out bringing in an emergency hire freeze.
Mercedes Villalba, who represents the North East, had proposed a halt to rental will increase till a system of nationwide hire controls will be launched.
The measure can be focused at personal landlords however council and social housing tenants would additionally profit.
However Patrick Harvie, the minister for tenants' rights, mentioned it was "not one thing that I may suggest the federal government supporting".
The Scottish Greens co-leader is main a Holyrood evaluate of hire controls with a view to laws taking impact by 2025.
In keeping with Dwelling Hire campaigners, rents have risen by 10 per cent throughout Edinburgh, Glasgow and far of the central belt within the final yr.
They're calling for motion to be taken now.
In a letter to the Labour MSP, Harvie added: "The near-blanket strategy, coupled with the dearth of alternative for engagement, implies that it's at excessive danger of profitable problem.
"I don't consider that there's profit for tenants in a provision which unravels at first tug – that's the reason I stay dedicated to finishing up the detailed work needed to place in place sturdy hire controls which intention to really obtain the meant safety."
Villalba mentioned: "It is very disappointing the minister for tenants rights is so strongly opposing a hire freeze that may supply actual safety to tenants, in opposition to the backdrop of the worst price of dwelling disaster in a long time.
"For Patrick Harvie to criticise a brief hire freeze as a 'close to blanket strategy' is displaying a scarcity of assist for poverty-stricken tenants.
"These tenants desperately want the federal government to introduce measures to stop landlords mountain climbing up rents, whereas we await the introduction of a everlasting system of rental controls that ministers promised.
"I hope that the Scottish Authorities will rethink its opposition to my proposal to guard renters, and that SNP and Inexperienced MSPs vote to assist the proposal to freeze rents."
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