Rent Regulation: The Balance between Private Landlords and Tenants in Six European Countries

Haffner, Marietta; Elsinga, Marja; Hoekstra, Joris

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“…Whilst there has been comparative research into rent setting and regulation (e.g. Haffner et al, 2008), there appears to have been no systematic operationalisation and testing of the assumptions about security of tenure or housing quality. It has also been suggested that privatization processes from early 1990s (i.e.…”

Section: De Jure De Facto and Perceptual Security Of Tenurementioning

confidence: 98%

Secure Occupancy: A New Framework for Analysing Security in Rental Housing

2014

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Unlike debates about security for owner occupiers which recognise that security is complex and multi-layered, security for renters is often presented as single dimensional and conflated with de jure security of tenure, deriving from a property rights perspective. This article proposes a broader concept of 'secure occupancy' to enable a more nuanced understanding of security for tenants. A new framework is developed to enable investigation of the dynamic interactions between legislation/regulation, housing market conditions, public policies and cultural norms around renting, which shape security of occupancy for tenants. The paper illustrates this approach, drawing on a study of the rental systems of nine developed countries, identifying key factors that appear to have a strong bearing on strengthening, and weakening, of security of occupancy for renter households. The article concludes that this approach has the potential to deepen understanding of security for renters and to stimulate new avenues for research.

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Section: De Jure De Facto and Perceptual Security Of Tenurementioning

confidence: 98%

Secure Occupancy: A New Framework for Analysing Security in Rental Housing

2014

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“…Though rent control is primarily related to government policy to secure affordability on the private rented sector (e.g., Haffner et al 2008), rent control is applied to both private and social housing sectors. Most studies on the effects of rent control have, however, focused on the impact of rent controls on the earning potential of private landlords and on their decisions on maintenance (Arnott and Shevyakhova 2014; Lind 2015), investments and the sale of rental housing (e.g., Andrews et al 2011; Autor et al 2012; Block and Olsen 1981).…”

Section: Rent Control and Price Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rent increase strategies and distributive justice: the socio-spatial effects of rent control policy in Amsterdam

Jonkman

Janssen-Jansen

Schilder

2017

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Rent controls and rent setting regulation in different contexts incorporate and balance different aims, in particular when securing affordability and the effective distribution of scarce housing by incorporating market mechanisms. As rent policy is frequently discussed in terms of affordability or market functioning in broad terms, small-scale distributive socio-spatial effects are often not regarded. In this paper, three strategies under the new rent sum policy are compared against the former policy and practice for Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to observe the effects of distributive justice. The new rent policy partly decentralizes rent increase decisions from the national level to local authorities and housing associations. Using microdata on all social housing units and their tenants’ distributive justice, outcomes under the former policy and practice are observed for a 6-year period (2008–2014) and the effects of three different rent increase strategies under the new rent sum policy are forecasted for the same period, combining an ex ante and an ex post evaluation. The possibilities for housing associations to vary rent increases for different groups of tenants in order to improve distributive justice outcomes are explored. Results show that all three possible strategies decrease the observed affordability gap between new and long-term tenants. Valuing the distributions of these strategies by applying two different standards for distributive justice shows the rent sum policy may only result in modest improvements.

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“…This is despite quantitative analysis which argues that the introduction of various types of rent control in England would have very little effect on landlords' incomes and profit margins (Clarke, Hamilton, Heywood, & Udagawa, 2015). The political reluctance to consider methods of rent control differs from other European contexts, which use different forms of control that may restrict the rate and frequency of rent rises within tenancies (Haffner, Elsinga, & Hoekstra, 2008).…”

Section: Affordabilitymentioning

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The convergence, divergence and changing geography of regulation in the UK's private rented sector

Moore

2017

International Journal of Housing Policy

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The role of the private rented sector (PRS) has grown in many parts of Europe in recent years, both as an increasing component of housing systems and as the effects of the global financial crisis become apparent. In the UK, the role of the sector has deepened and is increasingly relied upon to house growing and diverse proportions of the population for longer periods of time. This has renewed interest in the regulation of the sector in order to improve its suitability and desirability for tenants. There has been increasing convergence in regulatory approaches between some jurisdictions of the UK, such as Scotland and Wales, and divergence between others, such as England where regulation remains a residual policy concern. Using examples of tenure security, landlord regulation and affordability, this policy review seeks to highlight the emerging differences in the way the PRS is regulated within the UK. It argues that the likely consequence of these differences is that there may be increased variation in the effects and experience of renting in the PRS, in relation to eviction protections and landlord management standards. The paper shows how jurisdictions in Scotland, and to a lesser extent Wales and Northern Ireland, are moving towards models of regulation that more closely mirror those used in Western European countries, with England becoming an outlier in the way in which it regulates private renting.

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Rent Regulation: The Balance between Private Landlords and Tenants in Six European Countries

Cited by 59 publications

References 10 publications

Secure Occupancy: A New Framework for Analysing Security in Rental Housing

Secure Occupancy: A New Framework for Analysing Security in Rental Housing

Rent increase strategies and distributive justice: the socio-spatial effects of rent control policy in Amsterdam

The convergence, divergence and changing geography of regulation in the UK's private rented sector

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