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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landlords vs Tenants = Top vs Bottom? Class Positions in Rental Housing in Germany

open access: yesCritical Housing Analysis, 2023
Home ownership status is closely linked to social inequality in Germany, where tenants face several disadvantages in multiple dimensions. Even though Germany is one of the biggest renter and therefore landlord nations, in the context of the ...
Philipp Kadelke
doaj   +1 more source

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Limits of Small-Scale Landlords: Binding Constraints to Residential Real Estate Investment Expansion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Industrial Management
Small-scale landlords in the private rented sector make a critical contribution to the supply of affordable residential accommodation to prospective tenants.
Reil S. Romero   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anticompetitive Consequences of Exclusivity Clauses Contained in Shopping Centres’ Lease Agreements

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
This article discusses the impact of commercial lease agreements concluded in shopping centres that contain exclusivity clauses on competition. It assesses whether these clauses restrict equitable retailer participation in shopping centres, thereby ...
Motseotsile Clement Marumoagae
doaj   +1 more source

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un encadrement négocié de la rente locative ? Usages ambivalents du « permis de louer » face à la division des pavillons en banlieue de Paris

open access: yesBelgeo
New instruments are being made available to local authorities in France to regulate the private rental market. This contribution examines one of them, the ‘renting license’, based on a field study conducted in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, a commune in the ...
Benoît Frel-Cazenave
doaj   +1 more source

Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

Diving in at the ‘Bottom End’: The Risk Awareness and Risk Management Practices of Sub £65K Landlords

open access: yesCritical Housing Analysis, 2022
Significant growth in Scotland’s private rented sector over the last 25 years has been led by a large number of individual lay investors/landlords who each own a smattering of properties.
Andrew Watson
doaj   +1 more source

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