Preventing homelessness by making eviction a last resort
By: Published: March 2010
A Shelter Scotland briefing paper on the need for Pre-Action Requirements to help prevent evictions by councils and registered social landlords.
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Summary
The Scottish Government has issued a consultation paper on reducing the number of evictions for rent arrears from councils and Registered Social Landlords. It has raised the possibility of the current Housing (Scotland) Bill being amended to reflect a new consensus on evictions.
Shelter Scotland welcomes the paper and the range of options set out in it. We are firmly of the view that the time is right for evictions policy to be modernised by introducing 'Pre-Action Requirements (PARs)'. These PARs would be a series of steps that landlords must take before they were able to take a tenant to court. These steps reflect what is already good practice so we are sure that progressive landlords, tenants groups and everyone who is committed to homelessness prevention will also back this option.
