Millions of Americans with tens of billions in unpaid rent face eviction and loss of their home.
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The CDC’s sweeping eviction moratorium leaves more questions than answers – as well as concerns that it merely pushes the problem into winter.
The COVID-19 crisis is stretching long strained relations between shopping centre landlords and tenants to breaking point.
Public housing renewal often aims for a 70:30 private-public mix of dwellings. Modelling shows applying this mix to Waterloo housing estate would cut the suburb’s social housing share from 30% to 17%.
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.
Even landlords think involving social housing tenants is critical to running properties, but too often it doesn’t happen.
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.
Stereotypes that paint landlords as “bad” and tenants as “good”, and pit the two groups against each other, are actually holding back progress.
New York City’s municipal budget relies heavily on the property taxes of extremely high-value real estate. That drives gentrification and distorts local policy in other ways that hurt residents.
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.
New laws were supposed to protect people from living in unsafe conditions – but in the eyes of a judge, property guardians might not even count as ‘tenants’.
Previous laws gave tenants very little protection – but now landlords could face court if they don’t keep their properties in good repair.
The very short list of winners, and a growing list of losers, in Doug Ford’s Ontario does not bode well for the government’s political future – or the province.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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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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Research Associate, HHAUS research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University
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Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Warwick
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Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, University of Memphis
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Adjunct lecturer, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, Social Policy and Housing, University of Stirling
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Researcher in Public Health, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Clinical Research Project Manager, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor of Housing and Social Policy, Sheffield Hallam University