
Private Sector Housing and Health
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regulation Intended to Protect the Health of Tenants
- 132 pages
- English
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Private Sector Housing and Health
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regulation Intended to Protect the Health of Tenants
About this book
This book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England's private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies. From the environmental health practitioner perspective, the targeted health problem is occupiers privately renting from negligent or criminal landlords who are subsequently exposed to hazardous conditions arising from disrepair.
Paul Oatt's analysis looks at the powers local authorities have to address retaliatory eviction when enforcing against housing disrepair and digs deeper into their duties to prevent homelessness and powers to protect tenants from illegal eviction. He then explores the potential for tenants to take private action against landlords over failures to address disrepair, before finally discussing proposals put forward by the government to abolish retaliatory evictions and improve security of tenure with changes to contractual arrangements between landlords and tenants, based on successive stakeholder consultations. The policy analysis looks at these aspects to define the overall effectiveness of housing strategies and their implementation, examining causality, plausibility and intervention logic as well as the unintended effects on the population. Equitability is examined to see where policy effects create inequalities as well as the costs, feasibility and acceptability of policies from landlords' and tenants' perspectives.
The book will be of relevance to professionals interested in housing and health, as well as students at universities that teach courses in environmental health, public health, and housing studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Series Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Eviction and Its Health Effects
- 3 The Effectiveness of Housing Policy Development
- 4 The Unintended Effects of Housing Policy Implementation
- 5 Housing Policy, Social Inequalities and Equitability
- 6 Housing Policy, Cost and Implementation
- 7 Housing Policy Implementation, Feasibility and Acceptability
- 8 Reforming the Private Rented Sector
- Index