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Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Social Sciences Journal Articles |
Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
Title: | Becoming a landlord: strategies of property-based welfare in the private rental sector in Great Britain |
Author(s): | Soaita, Adriana Mihaela Searle, Beverley Ann McKee, Kim Moore, Tom |
Keywords: | Private rental sector landlords asset-based welfare property inequality United Kingdom |
Issue Date: | 31-Dec-2017 |
Citation: | Soaita AM, Searle BA, McKee K & Moore T (2017) Becoming a landlord: strategies of property-based welfare in the private rental sector in Great Britain. Housing Studies, 32 (5), pp. 613-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2016.1228855 |
Abstract: | 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. |
DOI Link: | 10.1080/02673037.2016.1228855 |
Rights: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Housing Studies on 27 Sep 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02673037.2016.1228855 |
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