Co-operatives make up only a small part of Australia’s accommodation stock but their users say the benefits warrant it being considered as a way of easing the housing crisis.
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Hamilton city council’s vote to pass an anti-renoviction bylaw is an important step in addressing housing affordability in Ontario.
If the cause of the mould is related to the design and construction of the house, rental providers should act.
Here are 12 questions worth considering before you sign a residential tenancy agreement.
In order for Canada to overcome the housing affordability crisis, individuals, families, the real estate industry and government all need to work together.
It’s often claimed that reforming tenancy laws to better protect tenants will drive landlords out of the market, leading to fewer rental properties. A new study finds no evidence to support the claim.
Investing in housing means providing a home. National tenancy reforms are reshaping the role of landlords to reflect this responsibility.
Tenants are rarely allowed to make permanent changes to a house. And many landlords know little about the conditions tenants endure, but most who do retrofit homes do it to improve renters’ comfort.
Economists shape the world in many ways, but some of their conclusions are counter-intuitive to say the least.
While the idea of rent controls can seem attractive at first glance, the evidence suggests the government is right to be sceptical of their ability to help ease the housing crisis.
Studies show that tenants facing eviction who have a lawyer are a lot less likely to lose their home.
Millions of Americans with tens of billions in unpaid rent face eviction and loss of their home.
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.
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, University of Memphis
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Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct lecturer, Victoria University
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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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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer, Retail History, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor in Public Health, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor in Landlord and Tenant Law and Legal Education, University of Portsmouth
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Assistant Professor, Hill and Levene Schools of Business, University of Regina
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Lecturer, Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University
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Research Fellow in Housing Studies, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Law, University of East Anglia
