Soaita, A. M. , Munro, M. and McKee, K. (2020) Private renters’ housing experiences in lightly regulated markets: Review of qualitative research: Executive summary. Documentation. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.
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Abstract
It is known that the private rented sector (PRS) accommodates an increasingly diverse range of households and plays a variety of roles in the housing market. This report is one of the first efforts to review qualitative studies that foreground tenants’ voices and experiences in the PRS in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and US. The report examines how different groups (low and middle income households, younger and older people, families with children, students and migrants) experience the PRS and argues that there are endemic problems with affordability and insecurity that impact adversely on many tenants’ well-being, health and ability to create a sense of home. Spatial inequalities are also identified, whereby the poorest tenants are increasingly concentrated in more marginal and undesirable locations, including in unconventional forms of housing such as residential caravan parks or makeshift dwellings.
| Item Type: | Research Reports or Papers (Documentation) |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Munro, Professor Moira and Soaita, Dr Adriana Mihaela |
| Authors: | Soaita, A. M., Munro, M., and McKee, K. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies |
| Publisher: | UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence |
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