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Front Vet Sci
October 2024
Institute for Human-Animal Connection, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States.
The city of Houston, Texas has a growing deficit of available and affordable rental units for low-income residents. Due to pet policies, the shortage of affordable housing potentially puts renters who own pets at greater risk of housing insecurity. In this qualitative study, we use a community-engaged approach to document the lived experiences of finding and maintaining affordable housing among 24 current, former, and aspiring pet owners.
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February 2024
Department of Conflict and Development Studies, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
In the past decade, rental housing has emerged as a new field of financialization, highlighting the importance of rent to understanding contemporary urban dynamics. Despite rental markets expressing juridical relations, empirical research on the articulations between law and rent is absent in the existing literature. In light of critical legal approaches, the paper addresses this gap through an ethnographic exploration of conflictual residential rent relations in Barcelona.
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March 2024
Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Department of Community Health and Prevention, Nesbitt Hall, 3215 Market Street 718, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Public Health Res (Southampt)
December 2023
School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Background: Housing insecurity can be understood as experiencing or being at risk of multiple house moves that are (1) not through choice and (2) related to poverty. For example, due to short-term private rental tenancies, temporary or emergency housing, and homelessness. Housing insecurity has grown due to recent trends in the cost and availability of housing.
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October 2023
US Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center On Homelessness Among Veterans, Washington, DC, USA.
With the growth of community partnerships with housing providers to address social determinants of health, it may be time to rethink the term "landlord." The term, landlord, may be antiquated as it originated from medieval Europe in the 9th century, denotes rank, is male, and may create further divisions between tenants and landlords. In the US, many average Americans rent their property; as data from the Internal Revenue Service and the Rental Housing Finance Survey indicate nearly 10 million Americans reported rental income in 2020 and most of them own only 1-2 rental units.
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