Housing as bricks and mortar

Despite the difficulties in measuring quality, it can be argued that there are broad standards, which define acceptable housing quality in any one culture at any one time. These standards form part of the concept of ‘fitness’ defined in the 1989 Local Government and Housing Act, which applies to England, Wales and N. Ireland. Since 1969 a slightly different definition of fitness has been adopted in Scotland, the ‘tolerable standard’.