International Journal of Law in the Built Environment: Volume 2 Issue 2

Can housing rights be applied to modern housing systems?

Padraic Kenna

The purpose of this paper is to outline and examine the growing corpus of housing rights and assess their relevance and applicability to complex contemporary housing systems…

Using banks: The effect of national attitudes to public intervention in mortgage lending and eviction in French and English law

Jane Ball

The purpose of this paper is to show the different attitudes to bank ownership and regulation, residential lending and eviction in the UK and France, with their effects in the…

Housing discrimination and minorities in European cities: the Catalan Right to Housing Act 2007

Juli Ponce

This paper aims to consider, from a legal perspective, the problem of housing discrimination which has become an issue of increasing importance in Spanish cities, as in other…

Designing a new rental housing law for Romania

Wolfgang Amann, Alexis Mundt

This paper aims to describe the outcome of a research program carried out by the Austrian IIBW to support the Romanian Government in redesigning its national housing law in order…

Legal challenges in ensuring regular maintenance and repairs of owner‐occupied apartment blocks

Martti Lujanen

The purpose of this paper is to compare different apartment ownership systems and analyze how to enhance the regular maintenance and repair of owner‐occupied apartment buildings…

Guest editorial

Alice Christudason, Padraic Kenna