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Suburban areas have lower density development than urban areas, which may make them less accessible for the growingpopulation of low- and moderate-income suburban residents, particularly those without a personal vehicle. This research examines factors that lead these households to move to suburban areas and identifies accessibility barriers they face. We use a mixed-methods approach with Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data from the U.S. Census, online/in-person surveys (n=208), and interviews conducted in English and Spanish (n=25) with households in Contra Costa County with an income of less than $75,000. To understand key differences in housing and transportation choices between urban and suburban residents, these data were compared to survey and interview data from low-income Oakland residents from 2020-2021. We found that low- and moderate-income households choose to live in suburbs due to rising rents and otherrequirements (e.g., credit score, rental history) in urban areas, and a desire for home ownership and safer environment for children. Yet lack of tenant protections is leaving them vulnerable to rising rents in suburban areas. Transportation costs are higher in suburbs due to longer commutes and higher reliance on personal vehicles. Despite higher levels of carownership in the suburbs, households often go without a car due to maintenance issues or inability to make car payments. When faced with the lack of an automobile, suburban households have few quality transportation alternatives.

Given the urgency of global energy transition, small- and medium-sized cities often undergo rapid changes. What is often missing, however, is a better understanding of how residents of those places perceive, and relate to the various aspects of local energy transition process and spatial outcomes. This study focuses on the Hoogkerk district of Groningen in the Northern Netherlands, where we used Q-Methodology to identify shared viewpoints. Our findings reveal three main viewpoints: a) the importance of protecting local spatial and environmental values, b) prioritising energy-saving approaches notably for the vulnerable segments of the society, and finally c) the need for comprehensive district-level planning led by the municipality. These findings underscore the importance of integrated approaches that address both spatial and process aspects of local energy transition. We argue that these insights can support policymakers and the local citizen initiative towards the development of an integrated local energy vision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flex-housing is a form of (social) rental housing where the dwelling unit, the building location or the inhabitation period are temporary. Flex-housing developed as a potential stop-gap solution in Dutch housing policy, to temper the acute housing shortages in the country and provide accommodation to a set of vulnerable groups of residents. This policy review traces the emergence of flex-housing as a 'housing hack' in the Dutch housing policy milieu and outlines the legal changes that enabled its development, including short-term contracts since 2015, a stimulus package aimed at the building sector in 2019, and its promotion to a full-fledged solution in the coalition agreement of 2021. The review further follows the parallel efforts to define the target group for this type of housing, which pieced together 'demanding and resourceful tenants' over time under the umbrella of 'spoedzoeker' (people in urgent need of housing) and discusses the perpetuating inequity and precarity of flex-housing residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I ask how social housing providers in urban Norway balance between the needs of existing tenants (the insiders) and prospective residents (the outsiders). Based on qualitative interviews with social housing bureaucrats, I examine how the fifteen largest municipal social housing providers in Norway negotiate the trade-off between insiders and outsiders in housing allocation, rent setting and tenancy length decisions. While many of the institutional features of Norwegian social housing are designed to favour disadvantaged outsiders, this study suggests that openness to outsiders is counteracted by the protection of insider-tenants' residential stability through housing allowances, frequent tenancy renewals and discretionary exceptions. The paper concludes with reflections on social mechanisms that may influence the great social housing trade-off between insiders and outsiders. I argue that tenant-turnover strategies are blunted in contexts where insider-tenants are often no more privileged than outsiders, and that a 'virtue of necessity mechanism' may protect the residential stability of insiders in heavily targeted social housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Realization of rights to land, which are guaranteed by national legislation, primarily by the Constitution of our country, is of great importance in the context of a legal democratic s tate. Restrictions or violations of guaranteed rights must be minimized and eliminated, which can be done by investigating problematic aspects and «weak spots» in the field of land relations, including the right to obtain ownership of land plots from state and communal lands on a free basis, and in relation to the right to buy out plots obtained on the right of permanent use. Thus, according to Article 13 of the Constitution of Ukraine [1], it is established that the state ensures the protection of the rights of all subjects of ownership and management, the social orientation of the economy. All subjects of property rights are equal before the law. Article 14 of the Constitution of Ukraine stipulates that the right to own land is guaranteed. This right is acquired and exercised by citizens, legal entities and the state exclusively in accordanc e with the law. The article is devoted to the study of actual and, at the same time, problematic aspects related to the realization of the specified rights to land. The analysis of the current legislation and international experience regarding the acquisition of rights to land plots was carried out, the current judicial practice was analyzed on the issues initiated in the research, and proposals were made to solve the existing problems. The influence of the martial law on the realization of the right to obtain ownership of plots within the framework of free privatization, on the realization of the preferential right to purchase land plots, and on general issues of land use by subjects of law in the field of agribusiness is considered. The main focus of the article is on the search for optimal solutions and ways to solve problems that arise in the context of acquiring land from state and communal arrays, the preferential right to purchase a plot of land, and the purchase of plots by subjects who at one time received plots with the right of permanent ownership. use. According to the content of the article, successively, according to the description of the issues, proposals are put forward regarding the improvement of national legislation, the development of special measures and mechanisms aimed at the protection of land ownersh ip rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city of Houston, Texas has a growing deficit of available and affordable rental units for low-income residents. Due to pet policies, the shortage of affordable housing potentially puts renters who own pets at greater risk of housing insecurity. In this qualitative study, we use a community-engaged approach to document the lived experiences of finding and maintaining affordable housing among 24 current, former, and aspiring pet owners. The majority of the participants identified as female, were aged 44–60 years, identified as Black, had a high school education, and were employed full-time or on disability or government assistance. Many expressed having experienced homelessness in the past and/or having lived in several different types of affordable housing over their lifetime. Participants highlighted challenges in finding pet-inclusive affordable housing, emphasized its importance, and discussed issues faced, such as high pet charges, size and breed restrictions, and confusion surrounding pet policies. Landlord relationships and living conditions varied, with safety concerns prevalent. Having one's pet designated as an Emotional Support Animal made tenants feel safe and secure, knowing they could not be refused, evicted, or otherwise charged extra. Participants shared what is working well and what could be improved. This study concludes with recommendations for fair application and awareness of pet policies in affordable housing, drawing on participating tenants' experiences and existing efforts for policy and practice improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important services provided by cloud service providers (CSPs), cloud storage is economically attractive and can provide on-demand data storage service to resource-constrained tenants in the manner of pay-per-use. Therefore, by embracing cloud storage service, tenants can store their large-scale data on the remote cloud host to tremendously reduce local storage burden and computational overhead. However, due to the separation of cloud data ownership and management, cloud storage inevitably suffers from a few new security challenges, such as fine-grained cloud data deletion. To achieve data deletion in cloud storage, we design a vector-commitment-based publicly verifiable data deletion scheme, which can achieve data integrity auditing and block-based fine-grained data deletion. Specifically, our proposed scheme disguises the data deletion operation as data update operation. Therefore, the tenants can achieve data deletion by updating the cloud data blocks with some unrelated data blocks. Meanwhile, the tenants can prevent cloud data from being polluted by periodically performing data integrity auditing operation, thus guaranteeing that the cloud host sincerely maintains the data. Moreover, we formally analyze the security, which shows that our proposed scheme can satisfy all of the anticipative security requirements without interaction with a centralized third party. Finally, we develop a prototype system and evaluate the performance of our proposed scheme, which can intuitively demonstrate the high-efficiency and practicality of our proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United States faces a rental housing crisis marked by a scarcity of housing supply, leading to intense competition among prospective tenants. This crisis is a particular challenge for the more than one hundred million U.S. residents burdened with negative records such as criminal records, debts in collections, and evictions. Landlords have more access than ever to applicants’ information, yet little is known about how landlords process and think about these records to make housing decisions. This Article draws on theories of cultural sociology to provide a data-driven understanding of how landlords conceptualize the value of several types of personal records and what it means to use them legally and fairly. It offers a window into how decision-makers evaluate and ascribe meaning to records—including negative records, for which tenants can be denied housing—and how these meanings subsequently guide landlords’ rental decisions. Through eighty-eight interviews with landlords, property managers, rental company executives, and tenant-screening company executives, this interdisciplinary, multistate study leverages comparisons across record type and organization size. It shows how access to housing largely depends on cultural understandings of the morality of different types of negative records. Depending on the type of risk landlords perceive, they call upon different cultural archetypes when deciding how and why to include certain records in their decision-making. However, the processes by which landlords incorporate these cultural considerations vary by organizational size and stem from their perceptions of the law. This Article thus provides a key theoretical insight: Landlords operate with broadly shared cultural understandings about the nature of risk and the morality of various types of negative records, but with different conceptions of what it means to make rental decisions legally and fairly. Differences correspond with the structure and size of decision-makers’ organizations. This means that collateral consequences play out differently depending on the type of landlord a prospective tenant is dealing with. As part of this discussion, this Article further provides a novel understanding of how state and local data-use laws, as well as the Fair Housing Act, operate on the ground. Ultimately, the theoretical insights from this study can help inform housing policy going forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By following tenants who resist the destruction of their common yards in a post-renoviction neighbourhood of Uppsala (Sweden), this article examines how the local resistance by marginalized communities intersects with the effects of the financialization of housing. The article explores the concept of unhoming, as a violent, structural, and multi-scalar process that, in the name of urban renewal, destroys the places of marginalized communities in the capitalist city. For residents in a post-renoviction neighbourhood, the real-life experience of "creative destruction" entails navigating paradoxical and conflicting discourses, inflicting material, immaterial and emotional harm to the residents. The local resistance play out as a demand for housing justice, and as a forced balancing between patient dialogue and more confrontative action, in an increasingly authoritative context. Finally, the article suggests the use of a theoretical frame of place destruction in the analysis of contemporary urban struggles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adds to a revitalization of alienation as a political problem in the field of housing studies, pointing us to property relations that fragment tenants from acting together with other residents in similar positions. Analyzing ethnographic observations and interviews conducted in Basel with tenants facing mass cancellations of rental contracts, it operationalizes the problem of alienation to more closely examine the interplay of property relations and the subjective or collective experience of tenants: The consolidation of landlords' interests through complicit legal frameworks fragments tenants not only by producing insecurities within affected blocks. This consolidation also drives processes of individualization and conflict between fellow tenants and between tenants and their union, as well as harms tenants' belief in (local) political institutions. On the other hand, experiencing these fragmentations and the widespread inhibition of people to act together with others is, in some cases, the most sorrowful aspect for tenants facing rental contract cancellations in Basel. With the proposed understanding of alienation, the paper adds to two debates in housing studies: Outlining alienating property relations, it first foregrounds institutional constraints regarding the question of why many residents do not confront landlords' plans. Secondly, political alienation highlights the sorrow that can stem from the inhibition of collective action. Here the paper contributes to the debate around displacement and un-homing, showing them to be much more than the loss of original habitat. Lastly, the paper responds to the query of how to empirically apply the theoretically driven concept of alienation by moving questions of collective agency to the fore in housing and alienation theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the rising number of evictions in the United States, self‐organised and housing‐insecure tenants actively fight back against their harassment and displacement. Because of the high rate of informal evictions, housing struggles between tenants and landlords are not only fought in courts; they often take place at the homes that they themselves and their landlords occupy. How do precariously housed tenants resist their displacement, and turn domestic spaces into spaces of tenant protest and resistance? This article examines the performative capacity of residential buildings in tenant direct actions in Los Angeles. By protesting at their own homes and those of their landlords, tenant groups claim control over their domestic spaces and establish a direct correlation between the lavish lifestyles of their landlords and their own unliveable conditions. The performativity of residential buildings during actions emphasises the violence of landlord harassment and forced evictions, turns personal experiences of housing insecurity into public spectacles, and enacts corrections to power imbalances in rental arrangements. More than sites of collective actions, residential spaces provide material evidence of tenant exploitation and a means of visualising tenant power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper documents the role of village fairness norms in land markets. A strong and robust relationship is established between experimentally elicited village-level fairness norms and land-rental rates across 250 Malawian villages. Stronger fairness norms correlate with a tighter range in village rental rates. The study suggests that the fairness norms for tenants appear to be more important, constraining the land-rental price range by a price ceiling rather than a price floor. The results further indicate that rented-in fields are of lower agronomic quality than owner-cultivated fields, but do not find any statistically significant relationship between the fairness norms and land-rental activity in the village. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The early AIDS epidemic in New York City revealed the intersection of two long-term crises impacting gay and lesbian tenants in the city: a critical lack of affordable housing and homophobic discrimination in private and public housing provision. People with AIDS and their family members faced tenant harassment, eviction, and structural homophobia in New York State's rent regulations. This article's microhistory of the eviction of Michael Brown, a rent-regulated tenant in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, highlights how activists brought knowledge acquired in the traditional tenant movement into new gay and lesbian organizations. This collaboration was a result of Chelsea's history as a center of both militant tenant organizing and neighborhood-based gay and lesbian activism. In Chelsea, gay and lesbian residents joined the housing movement as low-income tenants, while also participating in neighborhood activism reflecting their concerns as gay and lesbian residents. Michael Brown's eviction case brought these two local organizing traditions into direct collaboration. This article builds on scholarship revealing the political agency of tenants and recent literature on housing and care during the AIDS epidemic by situating gay and lesbian advocacy for housing during the early AIDS crisis within a long trajectory of New York City tenant activism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the residential housing sector, energy conservation issues may arise in the relationship between landlords and renters (a.k.a. tenants) due to principal-agent and information problems. An example is the split incentive, where one party makes the energy efficiency decisions while the other pays the energy bill. Herein, we investigate whether the landlord and renter split incentive problem may be more likely and more challenging for college student renters than those who are not college students. This may occur from landlords perceiving that college renters lack sufficient demand for energy efficient improvements. There is a lack of studies regarding the possibility that college renters may face greater exposure to the split incentive problem. We surveyed landlords to better understand their prior energy efficiency investment decisions and used a contingent valuation question to further investigate their choices for a hypothetical return on investment scenario. The landlords had various mixes of college students and non-students in their properties. Landlords renting one single-family property exclusively to college students had, on average, completed fewer major upgrades to their rental properties and were less likely to invest in a hypothetical insulation upgrade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern computing infrastructures are evolving due to virtualisation, especially with the advent of 5G and future technologies. While this transition offers numerous benefits, it also presents challenges. Consequently, understanding these complex systems, including networks, services, and their interconnections, is crucial. This paper introduces ServiceNet, a groundbreaking architecture that accurately performs the important task of providing understanding of a multi-tenant architecture by discovering the complete topology, crucial in the realm of high-performance distributed computing. Experimental results have been carried out in different scenarios in order to validate our approach, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach in comprehensive multi-tenant topology discovery. The experiments, involving up to forty tenant, highlight the adaptability of ServiceNet as a valuable tool for real-time monitoring in topology discovery purposes, even in challenging scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Science and technology parks (STPs) have proliferated in many countries as an innovation policy tool. Several studies have used patent counts to assess their impact on innovation performance rather than the quality of patents, leading to mixed results. The aim of this paper is to explore whether STPs contribute to increasing the quality of patents filed by tenants since patent counts alone do not capture the technological or economic value of the patented inventions. Using a novel database of Spanish patents generated on- and off-park together with firms' characteristics, we compare the quality of patents filed by firms located inside and outside STPs and find that STPs have a positive effect on the quality of the tenants' innovative performance. We apply a novel econometric technique to confirm that our results are robust to omitted variable bias and explore possible channels through which STPs produce an effect on patent quality, such as by facilitating collaboration, increasing collaboration with universities, and fostering the internationalisation of inventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Supreme Court appears to be on a mission to enhance the scope of liability under the Takings Clause, the result of which could be the chilling of federal, state, and local regulation. However, the Court has acknowledged that there is no takings liability when, under "background principles," the property owner lacked the very right she is claiming the government has taken via regulation. The rationale for, and hence proper scope of, the background principles exception to takings liability is opaque in the case law. This Article offers three possible rationales for the background principles exception that could guide courts and help them to make more tenable decisions: an originalist rationale, a cultural consensus rationale, and an actual notice rationale. The arguments for and against these rationales are explored using contemporary property rights debates involving public access to beaches, evictions of tenants, and preservation of wildlife habitat on private land. The courts cannot be expected to clearly and consistently demarcate the public/private divide in property law in an unimbeachably rigorous manner, but they can and should do better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the interaction between 'radical' constitutional change, in the form of political devolution, and property systems in the UK, from the perspective of those at the margins of those systems. The paper adopts a property 'from below' approach and critically applies the theoretical framework developed by AJ van der Walt in Property in the Margins. In that book, van der Walt outlined how property systems frequently operate to resist democratic and constitutional change and transformation through the functioning of the property paradigm, which refers to a set of doctrinal, rhetorical, and logical assumptions and beliefs about the relative value and power of discrete property interests in law and in society. Building on van der Walt's work, this paper takes eviction, which represents the landlord's apex right, as a case study and considers how qualifications of that right have been reformed by the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016. It is argued that while the strength of the property paradigm is apparent in both English and Scottish property systems, Living Rent, a national tenants' union in Scotland, have organised tenants to effectively contest and, in some respects, displace the logic of the property paradigm during the reform process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the evolution of the Tenant Right to Counsel (TRTC) movement, examining its justifications, historical context, and future implications. Topics include the legislative and jurisprudential background of TRTC, the benefits of providing legal representation to tenants facing eviction, and the challenges faced by the movement, such as attorney recruitment and court resistance to change.

The article focuses on evidence-based models that promote housing stability and reduce evictions by keeping tenants in their homes and out of courts. Topics include the inefficiencies of the current eviction process, innovative pre-filing solutions to prevent eviction filings, and the need for adaptable, community-focused programs to reduce reliance on summary eviction proceedings.

Evictions are among the harshest, most violent, disruptive, and damaging acts authorized by our civil courts. An armed official with a gun orders a tenant and their family out of their home and removes their possessions, often simply placing a family's belongings - photos, knick-knacks, furniture, the accumulations of a life - on the sidewalk to be lost or damaged. Evictions ravage lives - they damage physical and mental health, disrupt education, cause job loss and homelessness, and dislodge people from community and stability. The violence of eviction is always implicit and often explicit. Sometimes, evictions result in armed conflict and death. And evictions are racialized andfeminized: they are visited on Black women and other women of color in vastly disproportionate numbers. It is time to develop strategies to abolish evictions. Evictions do not take place in a vacuum. Much needs to be in place for fail to be in place) for evictions to happen. Eviction is the end-product of a system that enlists judicial authority to maintain the existing power dynamic between landlords and tenants by employing this harshest of "civil" remedies. The eviction system exalts profit over human need. The eviction system denies tenants the legal and financial safeguards and supports that are needed to avert the types of conflicts that lead to eviction. The eviction system uses unfair, biased, one-sided, rapid-fire court processes andfails to provide tenants with legal counsel and a meaningful opportunity to be heard. The eviction system relies on modern -day bounty- hunters who make more money the more people they evict. The eviction system denies tenants' dignity, respect, and humanity, and disregards the devastating impact of eviction on lives and livelihoods. It does not have to be this way. We know what to do to disrupt the eviction system and abolish evictions. There are tools and approaches already in use around the world, and increasingly in the United States, that can avert evictions, minimize their likelihood, and mitigate their devastating impact. This article calls for developing a strategy to abolish the use of evictions and presents a taxonomy of tools and approaches that are now being used or that could be used to that end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: The objective of this study is to gain insight into the extent to which an unfavorable indoor environment mediates the association between fuel poverty and health. Method: Data from the 2022 Dutch Health Survey were enriched with some registration data from the 2020 Monitor Fuel Poverty, resulting in a study population of 16,210 adults. Using Structural Equation Modeling in R, the mediation effect of an unfavorable indoor environment on the relationship between fuel poverty and various health outcomes was examined. An unfavorable indoor environment was defined as moisture, mold, and/or inadequate ventilation, as indicators of housing quality. Analyses were adjusted for various demographic factors: age, gender, property ownership (tenants or not), level of education, household with or with no children, and level of urbanity of the residence. Results: Fuel poverty is negatively associated with the absence of mental health issues and with social capital and positively associated with the risk of anxiety or depression, a negative self-rated health, physical limitations in daily life, loneliness, and stress. These associations are partially mediated by an unfavorable indoor environment (mediation proportion: 5.5–10.8%). In a subgroup analysis of tenants of housing corporations, the mediation proportion ranges from 8.3 to 20.1%. Conclusion: An unfavorable housing quality with moisture, mold, and/or inadequate ventilation is a mediating factor in the relationship between fuel poverty and health. Addressing the health effects of fuel poverty requires a comprehensive and structural approach, of which the indoor environment is an integral part. Connecting fuel poverty, housing quality, and health is necessary in both research and policy addressing fuel poverty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Critical editions, translations, and scholarly discussions typically treat Luke 20,18 as a separate logion from the preceding quotation from Ps 118 (MT; LXX 117) in Luke 20,17 that ends Jesus' telling of the parable of the wicked tenants. Despite its separation from the quote, scholars have typically seen in the line allusions to Isa 8,14–15 and Dan 2,34–35.44–45. This article questions both of these usual assumptions, arguing (a) that 20,18 should in fact be read as the second half of the quotation begun in 20,17 and (b) that its language of crushing and in particular "winnowing" (λικμάω) takes up a common scriptural judgment motif. Luke 20,18 represents, then, a point of convergence between explicit quotation and the third gospel's frequent use of septuagintal language that results in a creative proof-text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Supreme Court appears lo be on a mission to enhance the scope of liability under the Takings Clause, the result of which could be the chilling of federal state, and local regulation. However, the Court has acknowledged that there is no takings liability when, under "background principles, " the property owner lacked the very right she is claiming the government has taken via regulation. The rationale for, and hence proper scope of the background principles exception to takings liability is opaque in the case law. This Article offers three possible rationales for the background principles exception that could, guide courts and help them to make more tenable decisions: an originalist rationale, a cultural consensus rationale, and an actual notice rationale. The arguments for and against these rationales are explored using contemporary property rights debates involving public access to beaches, evictions of tenants, and preservation of wildlife habitat on private land. The courts cannot be expected to clearly and consistently demarcate the public/private divide in properly law in an unimpeachable rigorous manner, but they can and should do better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The housing situation changes with the household formation cycle. Age, marital status and having children are key to explaining the tenure status of households. However, the question of what factors differentiate owners and tenants if they are at the same stage of household formation arises. Using the logit model method, the determinants of tenure status of Polish households in the same life cycle stages were compared. The study used EU-SILC data for 2018. It showed that both the determinants of housing choices and the strength of their impact differ. At the household formation stage, income and the size of the city are important determinants. At this stage, housing choice is limited due to the availability of the rental market and the need for young people, who migrate to larger cities, to become independent. At the stabilization stage, the source of inequality was the gender of the household head, education, health and marital status. It has been observed that entering into an informal relationship by divorced persons does not equalize their chances of homeownership.

We examine the recent rise of institutional investment in the single-family home rental market and its implications for renters' welfare. Using institutional mergers to identify local exogenous variation in institutional landlords' scale and market share, we show that rents increase in neighborhoods where both merging firms owned properties (i.e., overlapped neighborhoods) relative to other nonoverlapped neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the crime rate also significantly decreases in overlapped neighborhoods after mergers. Our findings suggest that while institutional landlords leverage their market power to extract greater surplus from renters, they also improve the quality of rental services by enhancing neighborhood safety. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Architectural anthropology offers a way to critically analyse spaces through the social life that happens around them. It is a qualitative approach that relies on ethnography to connect larger systems and subjective dimensions, self-reflexivity, and the use of visualisations as a key analytical tool. This paper reflects on the possible contribution of architectural anthropology to housing studies. More specifically, it looks at homing processes in social housing, interrogating how non-domestic spaces perform through tenants' inhabitation practices. It tests ways to visualise ethnographic data gathered during immersive fieldwork that involved participant observation and informal interactions in a high-rise estate in Brussels. Three types of visualisations (subjective map, annotated photograph, lived-in axonometry) are presented to articulate the paper's discussion of homing, un-homing and de-homing processes at the level of a district, urban interstices, and beyond social housing. Ultimately, the paper concludes that architectural anthropology may contribute further to housing studies by exploring the relationship between home(making) and urban contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public housing (PH) focuses on assisting low-income households with housing stability. However, the inefficiency of property management in PH gives rise to a range of challenges in both physical and internal operational management, leading to negative stigmatisation towards tenants living in PH. Various initiatives have been launched to address the inefficiencies of property management. This study categorised and elaborated these initiatives under three main categories: reconceptualisation, externalisation, and managerialisation. There is currently no systematic literature review that provides a comprehensive overview of the initiatives aimed at enhancing property management in PH on a global scale, despite the fact that an overwhelming number of initiatives have been proposed in various studies. Therefore, the present systematic literature review was conducted to provide a comprehensive understanding of the existing research and initiatives pertinent to PH property management. This thorough examination will not only inform the current state of property management practices but also provide valuable insights to guide future research endeavours and decision-making processes in this domain. The outcome of this study revealed the positive impact of managerialisation, showcasing its pivotal role in problem identification and as a strategic indicator for proposing solutions aimed at continuous improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the principle-agency problem between landlords and real estate agents using novel data on rental contracts. Real estate agents are found to obtain higher contract rents by approximately 1% more for themselves (and family members) than for other landlords, which is economically small. The results suggest that the principle-agency program with real estate agents is less of a concern in the rental market than the ownership market. The reason potentially relates to the commission structure, the relatively low effort associated with finding a tenant, the landlord's ability to evaluate an agent's performance, and reputation concerns from repeated interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractTenants all over the globe face the challenges of increasing rents and even forced evictions, particularly in the private urban rental sector. Affordable housing shortage and displacement have become severe societal problems for the lower- and middle-income segments. Certain legal institutions, including tenancy law, provide a decommodifying capacity for more tenure security and stability. This paper studies this capacity of tenancy law by comparatively examining the tenants’ and landlords’ rights in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland through the lens of decommodification. The focus is (1) on the rules of access to housing for new residents entering the housing market and (2) the rules of exit that govern the ability of the occupants to continue living in their apartments. Findings show that while tenants’ rights in Switzerland are weakly protected by law, tenants in Austria and Germany receive robust protection. Austrian and German tenants cannot be evicted at short notice, nor are landlords allowed to dismiss them unless they declare legitimate self-usage. Also, tenants remain protected from arbitrary rent increases in case of rental upgrading. Conclusions help practitioners to consider tenancy law as an influential way to counteract the market-driven dynamics in housing and to enhance the protective capacity within renting property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is a politics of compassion, and what are the implications for the private rental sector? In this article, we describe how an intended politics of compassion manifested in Aotearoa during the pandemic and analyse how this compares to compassion's theoretical framing in the work of Martha Nussbaum. Building on these theoretical insights, we then turn to practice, by analysing the vulnerabilities of, and barriers to, a politics of compassion evident in Government and landlord response to renters during the pandemic. We find a compounding of existing power inequity and the absence of compassion from political and administrative understandings in the face of neoliberal myths of the individualised market and fear of opportunism from those in poverty. We conclude with a discussion of the potential for a more compassionate private rental sector and make the case for an analysis of power, equity, and justice, in the theory and practice of a politics of compassion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought under the spotlight home's severe inadequacies, which take a particular intensity in the various unregulated, insecure rental housing markets across the globe. It is now timely to deliberate what it takes for a rented property to be made home, and in that debate tenants' voices should be heard. Taking the UK as a case-study and drawing on data collected through an online qualitative questionnaire, the paper focuses on a group of tenants theorised as 'everyday activists' to address the empirical question of what they demand from the government for the sector to improve. Considering participants' legitimising narratives and assertions for self-representation in policy construction, the paper then proposes a reading of the demands made through the 'Right to Home', a concept carefully grounded in Henri Lefebvre's Right to the City. The Right to Home calls for home-ing and democratising current de-radicalised understandings of the right to housing in order to craft more transformative futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mindy Thompson Fullilove’s concept of ‘Root Shock’ captures the trauma caused by the mass displacement and dispossession associated with urban renewal. In the twenty years since it was published, such policies have set in motion waves of trauma and ‘dispossessive praxis’ (Lancione, 2024, p. 841), producing what Fullilove (2004, p. 99) calls ‘a downward spiral of collapse’. Reflecting on the book’s twentieth anniversary, in this paper we draw on root shock and ancillary concepts to reflect on what happens when the forms of community, reciprocity, and solidarity presupposed in analyses of residents’ experience of displacement have already been hollowed out? We do so by examining how housing movements have had to simultaneously resist displacement and engage in active processes to create community, focusing on the experience of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) in Ireland. We show that the denial of roots requires the praxis of cultivating and nurturing their potential through tenant organizing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dutch housing associations are dealing with a growing number of tenants who are ageing in place. Meanwhile, there is a lack of suitable housing that meets the (social) needs of this target group. Clustered housing, which offers a socio-spatial context that facilitates encounters between residents, is considered a promising housing concept to (partly) fill this gap. However, clustered housing is a broad concept consisting of a variety of housing types that differ from each other in the extent to which people "live together". Still little is known about which types of clustered housing can be distinguished in relation to the potential for social interaction. Therefore, in this article we distinguish between types of clustered housing based on social, organizational, and spatial building characteristics. We have mapped these characteristics by combining real estate data of housing association Woonzorg Nederland with survey data collected among their building managers. Based on this dataset, an explorative cluster analysis was performed, resulting in four types of clustered housing. Finally, further exploration of the data shows that, from the perspective of building managers, residents of certain types of clustered housing interact more often and feel more connected with each other than residents of non-clustered housing types. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Article on factors that influence increasing revenue: baggage drop service, determining flight time slots, and tenant selection within the scope of marketing management science. This article aims to create hypotheses regarding the relationship between factors, which can then be used for further research in the field of marketing management. The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data used in this research comes from previous research which is still relevant to the current investigation. Data was collected from leading academic online platforms, including Publish or Perish, Google Scholar, digital reference books, and Sprott journals. The results of this literature research include: 1) Baggage drop services have an effect on increasing revenue; 2) Determining the flight slot time has an effect on increasing revenue; and 3) Tenant selection has an effect on increasing revenue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is strong evidence demonstrating cold housing prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand. Whānau (families) were recruited from a healthy homes programme based in South Auckland. Forty whānau consented to participate in a temperature-based study that assessed the ability of homes to protect against outdoor temperatures. In this observational study, temperature sensors measured night-time indoor temperature every 15 min from May 2020 to October 2020. Whānau were provided with healthy homes education and practical suggestions to help make homes warmer and dryer. Notably, each device (and house) spent 85% or more of the time below the World Health Organization Housing and Health Guidelines recommended minimum indoor temperature of 20°C for vulnerable groups. The lower standard of 18°C for more general populations referenced in the Healthy Homes Standards was not met over 60% of the time. Over a quarter of the time temperatures measured inside homes were below 12°C. If Māori and Pacific whānau continue to live in substandard housing due to residential inequities, they will continue to experience inequitable health outcomes related to cold housing. Solutions include the anticipated Residential Tenancies (Healthy Homes Standards) Regulations, supports for tenants and support with housing-related costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research aims to assess the living conditions of boarding houses around the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Internal dimensions, light, ventilation and room space were used to measure living conditions in boarding houses. The study employed a mixed-method approach to gather data. Descriptive and content analysis methods were used to analyse the data collected using a purposive sample of 70 boarding houses and interviews with 10 owners. The findings of the study revealed mixed results regarding the living conditions of boarding houses. Overcrowding is a major issue that led to most of the boarding houses failing to meet the minimum space requirements for tenants, leading to compromised living conditions. The study provides insights that can help policymakers to enhance regulations and standards to improve the well-being of the tenants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge generated by and with radical housing movements is necessary to achieve a more just housing system. This article analyses a militant research project involving collective investigation of the history of rent strikes in Ireland undertaken within the Community Action Tenants Union Ireland. Drawing on the tradition of workers' inquiry, it explores the relationships between militant research, class composition, and radical history, and how collective investigation of housing movement history might contribute to contemporary organising. The article is based on both oral history and archival research as well as reflections on the research process. The analysis focuses on how the project has or might contribute to current organising efforts through lessons drawn from historical analysis and connections developed through the research process, while also identifying tensions between research and organising. Overall, it highlights the value of radical history research as a form of organising and strategy for political recomposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]