Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce a rent freeze in a speech to the Scottish Parliament today.
The First Minister's Programme for Government will be unveiled in Holyrood this afternoon where she is expected to confirm the measures for tenants.
It comes after a campaign by Labour MSP Mercedes Villalba for a freeze, which was not backed by SNP and Green ministers earlier this year when it was tabled.
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The Daily Record reports that a parliamentary source said if the cost of a freeze was met by landlords, the policy would not cost the Scottish Government anything.
Ministers face the task of helping cope with the rising cost of energy bills amid the cost of living crisis and the budgetary pressures for the current financial year.
Villalba said: "We have the most right wing Tory government at Westminster since the Thatcher years, with the new Prime Minister Liz Truss openly stating that she supports 'Thatcherite' 1980s style tax cuts for the wealthiest.
"Against this backdrop, it's welcome that the First Minister appears to be planning to introduce a rent freeze.
"If the Scottish Government had not used its overall majority to block my proposal for a rent freeze earlier this year, the most hard pressed in our communities could already have had a month of relief from increases imposed by landlords."
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