Alternative Housing in UK Law
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Ownership at stake (once again): housing, digital contents, animals and robots
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the questioning around the current suitability of ownership both for accessing to certain property (housing, to be more specific) and chattels (digital contents,...... ... through alternative housingtenures,such as intermediatetenures and collaborative housing, licensing digital contents)or erosion/elimination (e.g.owning animals and ... ...
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The impact of compensation upon urban village residents satisfaction with the land expropriation process. Empirical evidence from Hangzhou, China
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate compensation and related welfare issues in the case of the expropriation of land for urban redevelopment in China. Design/methodology/approach: ...... ... farmers choosethe single monetary compensation relative to the alternative option of housingcompensation.The degree of satisfaction with ... close by the main economic hub of the big city butwhere housing costs are too high or not available. (Chai and Choi, 2017). Furthermoreit ... ...
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Regulating short-term rentals: Joined cases C-724/18 and C-727/18 Cali Apartments
The increase in short-term rentals via online platforms has captured the attention of scholars and regulators. Short-term letting is now considered a considerable alternative to traditional tourist...... ... Short-term letting is now considered a considerable alternative to traditional touristaccommodation contracts, challenging matters such as conditions in the housing market andconsumer protection. Online platforms, such as Airbnb, ... ...
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Relocating the Master’s Domain: Social and Legal Locations of
Gender from Post-Disaster to Everyday Life
The post-disaster situation provides an insight into the role of rights in the relocation of social and legal spheres and the location of gender within. Grounded in ...... ... domains of rights constructed within the World Bank and state housing policy, the public and private legal system and informal to alternative ... ...
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Renovations in lieu of rent in Spanish tenancy law
Purpose: In the context of difficulties in access to housing, the Spanish Act 4/2013 introduced a new article 17.5 into the Act on Urban Leases 1994 (LAU). This paper regulates the so-called renova...... ... Garcia-TeruelDepartment of Private, Procedural and Tax Law, UNESCO Housing Chair,Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, SpainAbstractPurpose –In ... to the current regulation, may representa true residential alternative forvulnerablepeople or if legislative reform is needed to promote its ... ...
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Macroeconomic drivers of London house prices
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to validate and quantify the effect of key macroeconomic drivers on London house prices using annual data over the period 1983–2016. Design/methodology/approa...... ... /approach –Within this context, the authors estimate alternative error-correctionand partial-adjustment models (PAMs), which have been ... key macroeconomic variables, such as UK GDP, London population and housing completions. A keyfinding of the study relevant to the debate on the ... ...
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Delivering a culture change in property guardianship: recommendations for reform to the regulatory landscape
Purpose: Property guardianship is increasingly being viewed as an alternative and, in many cases, a last resort to the unaffordable private rental market. This upsurge in the incidence of guardians...... ... –Property guardianshipis increasingly being viewed as an alternative and, in many cases,a lastresort to the unaffordable private rental market ... Coupled withambiguity around theapplication of existing housing legislation toguardianship and research showing non-engagementby local ... ...
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Home: A Vehicle for Resistance? Exploring Emancipatory Entanglements of ‘Vehicle Dwelling’ in a Changing Policy Context
This article begins with a reflection on Phil Thomas’ work, as well as on the way in which the Journal of Law and Society has pioneered scholarship in this field. Drawing on my own experiences as a...... ... ’ status as a van dweller, Iarticulate why many have sought alternative modes of living, reflectingon ideas about freedom and anarchism, the tance of ‘home’,cultural preference, and escaping the housing crisis. I note that Walesand other European states, such as Portugal, ... ...
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Feminized need and racialized danger: Punitive therapeutics and historical addict tropes in a Midwestern drug court
Drug courts are widely praised as a therapeutic alternative to mass incarceration. Using ethnographic discourse analysis, our intersectional comparison of a Midwestern court demonstrates how gender...... ... AbstractDrug courts are widely praised as a therapeutic alternative to mass incarceration. Usingethnographic discourse analysis, our ... -est surveillance and suspicion, their struggles in the labor and housing markets misrecog-nized as cultural deficiency.Corresponding author:Teresa ... ...
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The role of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac duopoly in the American housing market
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to the role of the Fannie Mae/ Freddie Mac duopoly in the American housing market. Design/methodology/approach: First, the pap...
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