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A legal scholar explains background on the ruling, what it means and who’s affected.
Millions of Americans with tens of billions in unpaid rent face eviction and loss of their home.
The displacement of low-income households in favour of middle- and high-income professionals in Kumasi is a cause for concern.
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.
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.
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 Sydney
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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 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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Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Co-Director, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Scholarship Unit, University of Adelaide
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Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Sociology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Lecturer, Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University
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Dean of Law, University of Wollongong
