Moves to get rid of no-fault evictions for tenants will not be enough to solve the rental sector’s problems.
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The risk of eviction is not just limited to those in precarious financial situations, but can impact renters across the board.
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.
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.
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct lecturer, Victoria University
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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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Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Social Policy and Housing, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Housing and Social Policy, Sheffield Hallam University
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Research Associate, Idaho Policy Institute, Boise State University
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Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Researcher in Public Health, University of Glasgow
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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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Adjunct Professor, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
