Improving housing security through tenancy law reform : alternatives to long fixed term agreements
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TextPublication details: Property Law Review, 2018.Description: 15 pagesSubject(s): Online resources: Summary: The greater use of long fixed term residential tenancy agreements is often put forward as a means for improving the housing security of tenants. This article argues, on the contrary, that long fixed terms are not a promising way of addressing housing insecurity. Considering the structure of the Australian rental housing sector, tenants’ subjective experiences of security and mobility, and international experience, long fixed terms as currently conceived of (by the laws of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria) are not useful for either landlord or tenants. Furthermore, recent law reform proposals to facilitate their greater use do not make them much more useful, and may be to the disadvantage of vulnerable tenants. The better approach is law reform to remove ‘without grounds’ terminations by landlords, and provide only for ‘just grounds’. Some variations on this approach are considered.
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KEYWORDS: long-term renting, rental insecurity
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