The COVID-19 crisis is stretching long strained relations between shopping centre landlords and tenants to breaking point.
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Coronavirus has made it glaringly obvious how serious the problems with UK housing are.
Current measures prohibiting the eviction of tenants and helping them through the financial crisis won’t last forever. A 40-year-old voucher program might be a longer term solution.
Many want to do the right thing – tenants and landlords alike. But they lack guidance on how to go about it while still keeping their own heads above water.
Representatives of tenants and agents agree that leaving individuals to try to sort out rent reductions has created a mess. It calls for government to step in to look after both renters and landlords.
Australia’s renters have been given a six-month moratorium from evictions for not paying rent. Some states and territories are offering other assistance.
The consequences of laws introduced into both the NSW and Tasmanian parliaments are anything but foreseeable.
Deferring rent won’t be enough to help businesses in empty shopping centres survive. They know they’ll have to pay it on the other side.
Even landlords think involving social housing tenants is critical to running properties, but too often it doesn’t happen.
Renting can be more restrictive than you might think.
In 2016, a Victorian court decided an Airbnb arrangement was a lease. ‘Guests’ could be protected by tenancy law, including against eviction. And in this case the host was evicted for subletting.
Investing where you’ve last invested isn’t bright. new research finds that two thirds of property investors do.
Stereotypes that paint landlords as “bad” and tenants as “good”, and pit the two groups against each other, are actually holding back progress.
Not all landlords see their properties purely as investments. As welfare reforms take hold, some are starting to take greater responsibility for the well-being of their tenants.
Housing laws in England can still leave tenants without proper protection, but the latest reforms offer hope for the future.
Landlords could have a big impact on public health, if they help their tenants to feel at home.
Previous laws gave tenants very little protection – but now landlords could face court if they don’t keep their properties in good repair.
Socialisation of housing would see profits from rent put back into the maintenance and modernisation of the buildings.
The government has had to rethink its roll-out of Universal Credit – but small tweaks to the system won’t prevent people on housing benefit from being evicted.
Housing policy needs to prioritise housing’s function as a home, rather than an asset.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, University of Memphis
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University
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Adjunct lecturer, Victoria University
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Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Warwick
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Research Associate, HHAUS research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer, Social Policy and Housing, University of Stirling
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Professor in Law, University of Southampton
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Professor of Real Estate, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Research Fellow in Housing Studies, University of Stirling
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Professor of Urban Geography, University of Sheffield