The Scottish Government

Housing Improvement Task Force Background to Stage Two

The HITF Report "Issues in Improving Quality in Private Housing" published in March 2002. This document provides closure on the stage one process and the basis of consultation in order to move forward to find solutions in the work of stage two.

The HITF Report includes links to Supporting Documents, published independently by organisations that contribute to the work of the HITF.

The First Stage Report link on the menu bar provides a web version of the document with user friendly navigation to chapters.

You can access the six supporting documents directly by clicking on their titles below:

Powers available to local authorities, other bodies and tenants to require owners to undertake improvements and repairs

Private sector housing improvement policy review 1967-2001

Embedding equalities issues into the work of the Housing Improvement Task Force

Literature Review of Arrangements for Common Repairs

Research into the Scottish house buying and selling process - Final report

First stage consultation report

The following should be viewed in conjunction with the supporting documents

Low-Income Owner Occupation In Scotland

Responses to the consultation document "Issues in Improving Quality in Private Housing" were requested by 14 June 2002. We welcome, however, ongoing responses to all of the work undertaken by the Housing Improvement Task Force. Responses from this exercise can be accessed here

In the first full year of the HITF, the Task Force published an initial consultation document.Responses received from the initial HITF Consultation in 2001 can be accessed here