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“Family-friendly” tenancies in the private rented sector

Emily Walsh (School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK)

Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law

ISSN: 2514-9407

Article publication date: 15 August 2019

Issue publication date: 21 October 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to analyse the extent to which the government’s recent proposals to end no-fault evictions will result in “family-friendly” tenancies.

Design/methodology/approach

It applies the theoretical scholarship on the meaning of family and home to the current law relating to private rented tenancies and the government’s proposals to increase security of tenure in the private rented sector.

Findings

Security of tenure is important to a number of the key aspects of home. However, feelings of home are better protected by security of occupancy, which requires more than de jure security of tenure. For families to feel at home in the private rented sector, they must be permitted to personalise their home and to keep pets. Further legislative changes could achieve these changes. However, for families to really make a home in the private rented sector, they need to exercise some choice over where they live and for low-income families; this will only be possible with broader policy changes.

Originality/value

This paper contributes to the important scholarship on the meaning of home and applies this to the very current debate on the rights of tenants in the private rented sector.

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Citation

Walsh, E. (2019), "“Family-friendly” tenancies in the private rented sector", Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPPEL-04-2019-0020

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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