‘Ma and Pa’ Landlords and the ‘Risky’ Tenant: Discourses in the New Zealand Private Rental Sector

Bierre, Sarah; Howden‐Chapman, Philippa; Signal, Louise

doi:10.1080/02673030903362027

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“…There is remarkably little research on the role of the housing manager in the private rental sector, especially in terms of mediating and managing the relationship between landlords and tenants. It is particularly notable that most research on relationships in the private rental sector focuses directly on the landlord and tenant, or conflates landlords and property managers (see for example Lister 2004;Lister 2005;Bierre et al 2010;Grineski and Hernández 2010). Nonetheless, this work is relevant to understanding how tenants may experience housing managers and landlords.…”

Section: Managing and Influencing Tenants Landlords And Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change adaptation in the rental sector

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Mee

Palmer

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Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation

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Section: Managing and Influencing Tenants Landlords And Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change adaptation in the rental sector

Instone

Mee

Palmer

et al. 2014

Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation

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“…For instance, we have not observed practices of 'Mum and Dad' investors buying nearby properties as future homes for their children (Bierre et al 2009;Hulse and McPherson 2014).…”

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Becoming a landlord: strategies of property-based welfare in the private rental sector in Great Britain

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Ongoing neoliberal policies have realigned the links between housing and welfare, positioning residential property investment--commonly through homeownership and exceptionally also through landlordism--at the core of households' asset-building strategies. Nonetheless the private rented sector (PRS) has been commonly portrayed as a tenure option for tenants rather than a welfare strategy for landlords. Drawing on qualitative interviews with landlords across Great Britain, we explore landlords' different motivations in engaging in landlordism; and the ways in which their property-based welfare strategies are shaped by the particular intersection of individual socioeconomic and life-course circumstances, and the broader socioeconomic and financial environment. By employing a constructionist grounded approach to research, our study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the different ways that asset-based welfare strategies operate within the PRS. We draw attention to an understudied nexus between homeownership and landlordism which we argue represents a promising route for future research.

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“…Specifically, the pre-1919 properties of the type pervasive in the UK are known to be intrinsically hard to insulate due to their construction and their poor thermal performance has been accepted as 'the norm' by many (Ambrose, 2015;DoE, 1976). It therefore appears that many common factors are at work across the countries where this issue has been studied, but that-as the IEA 2007 This framework broadens the restricted discourse on actors in the PRS, which is commonly reduced down to 'risky tenants' and 'Ma and Pa landlords', in policy texts (Bierre, Howden-Chapman and Signal, 2010).…”

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Taming the 'masculine pioneers'? Changing attitudes towards energy efficiency amongst private landlords and tenants in New Zealand: A case study of Dunedin

Ambrose

Mccarthy

2019

Energy Policy

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New Zealand's housing is some of the poorest quality and hardest to heat in the developed world. The private rented sector in particular offers the worst quality accommodation to the country's poorest and most vulnerable tenants. Previous research has established a range of economic and socio-cultural explanations for the prevalence of poor conditions in private rented accommodation with the 'principalagent problem' dominating the debate. This paper reports the findings from research in Dunedin, a city with some of the coldest conditions and least energy efficient properties in the country. The study was undertaken in 2015 and involved 30 indepth interviews with landlords exploring their attitudes towards improving the thermal performance and energy efficiency of their properties. The results revealed a shift in attitudes amongst landlords over a period of about 5 years, with many becoming more amenable to investing in insulation and low energy heat sources. This shift has ostensibly been driven by pressure from tenants who appear to be departing from established cultural norms and becoming intolerant of cold homes and high bills. The study highlights how socio-cultural factors, such as growing expectations regarding warmth and comfort in the home, can disrupt established cultural norms and economic rationales to bring about change.

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‘Ma and Pa’ Landlords and the ‘Risky’ Tenant: Discourses in the New Zealand Private Rental Sector

Cited by 30 publications

References 22 publications

Climate change adaptation in the rental sector

Climate change adaptation in the rental sector

Becoming a landlord: strategies of property-based welfare in the private rental sector in Great Britain

Taming the 'masculine pioneers'? Changing attitudes towards energy efficiency amongst private landlords and tenants in New Zealand: A case study of Dunedin

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