Leasehold estate

About: Leasehold estate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1589 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21480 citations. The topic is also known as: leasehold & tenancy.

Women and Housing in the City of Nairobi: Constraints and Opportunities

Abstract: This paper examines women and housing in Kenya’s urban areas. It specifically addresses the constraints and opportunities that, if explored, could enhance women’s chances of accessing owner-occupied housing in the city of Nairobi. Primary data was collected through questionnaires. The questionnaires targeted two groups of women, namely renters and owner-occupiers. A total of 90 women were interviewed, comprising 45 renters and 45 owner-occupiers. Simple descriptive statistics and Chi-square analysis were performed on the data. The findings of the study showed that women faced constraints of a financial (41.2%), institutional (36.6%), cultural (18.9%) and occupational (3.3%) nature in their efforts to secure their own housing. The study demonstrates that the best opportunities for women to acquire house ownership were through self-help groups, cooperative societies, and women’s finance trusts. The study recommends that the government, NGOs, and other stakeholders in the housing sector support and initiate programmes and activities aimed at increasing women’s access to house ownership, especially in an urban setting such as Nairobi City where the majority of women live in a situation of insecure housing tenancy. Keywords : Housing, Women East African Journal of Sciences Vol. 2 (2) 2008: pp. 170-175

Tenancy management in assisted living settings in Vancouver Island Health Authority

Abstract: Assisted living (AL) is a complex housing program for seniors and other eligible clients that incorporates the notion of choice, autonomy and independence in its service delivery. The AL industry involves a variety of stakeholders from different agencies and organizations; AL is regulated under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act. While popular and appealing to the public, AL suffers from the lack of standardization in its operational and managerial processes. Clients may be vulnerable because of an absence of a dispute resolution mechanism or a support system for AL stakeholders, particularly once evictions arise. Since the cost, time, and effort required to re-house clients when they lose housing is far greater than measures geared towards assisting them in maintaining housing (Shern, et al., 1997), the need for developing the process to ensure eviction prevention in AL laid the grounds for this document. In the context of research, work-related experience and published literature on AL, I have (a) developed a process for tenancy management, (b) articulated the roles of AL stakeholders in the process of tenancy management and (c) proposed suggestions to improve practice and operations in the AL environment. Tenancy management in AL ii

Tenants' Rights, Procedural Wrongs: The Summary Eviction and the Need for Reform

Abstract: A summary proceeding for eviction exists in every state. Despite its different labels-summary process, summary dispossession, or forcible entry and detainer-a basic feature of ~he proceeding is its limited nature. Generally only a single issue is presented: Who is entitled to possession? The question is usually answered within six to ten days after the action is commenced. This Article suggests that this procedure fails to accommodate what scholars have called a "revolution" in the law oflandlords and residential tenants that significantly expanded tenants' rights by the adoption of such doctrines as warranties of habitability and retaliatory evictions.1 Instead, this Article suggests that the continued use of the summary proceeding, in which the determination of possession often ends the dispute, undermines many of the benefits the revolution hoped to accomplish. The nature of the proceeding not only places the tenant at a disadvantage as her relationship terminates, but also weakens her position from the time the relationship commences. Because the summary procedure for eviction enables the landlord to enforce the terms of the leasehold within a framework designed for speed ratherthan fairness, the relationship largely avoids judicial scrutiny.

The Tenants of Emperor Haile Selassie I: An Examination of Landlord-Tenant Relationship

Abstract: Different scholars have examined Ethiopian tenancy from various angles. Previous studies on the subject consistently observe that the bulk of the southern peasants became tenants following the expansion of Ethiopian Empire State in the late nineteenth century and tenancy in the South was more common and more onerous than it was in the north. In addition, there was little reason to believe that the Imperial Ethiopian Government provided practical legal provisions to improve the conditions of tenants in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the position of most scholars regarding the condition of tenants as very gloomy is very difficult to accept. A closer examination of the relationship that existed between the Beta Rist, the management institution for the private property of Emperor Haile Selassie I, and the monarch’s tenants appears to suggest otherwise. Examining the historical processes that gave rise to the reduction of many peasants to the status of tenants; its intensity when analysed from two crudely delimited geographical regions (north and south), and the prerequisites that were necessary to undertake any land reform policy in the country are, however, beyond the scope of this paper. This study focuses on how the Beta Rist regulated landlord-tenant relationships in the postItalian period. It examined the personal, refers to Emperor Haile Selassie I, and institutional concerns taken to protect their rights as a tenant, and improve their conditions in light of government initiatives made to improve the conditions of tenants by taking into account the following basic organizing concepts: types of tenants, forms of rentals, security of tenure, and tenancy agreements. The researcher approached the issue qualitatively. The study used archival materials culled from Welde Mesqel Tariku Memorial Research Centre of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies and from secondary literature.