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.

Hong Kong's Gating Machine

Abstract: Scholars have identified ‘gating machines’ or ‘gating coalitions’ that promote gated communities. Hong Kong's high-rise housing estates in the private sector are extremely gated. Evidence presented in this paper suggests the proposition that public ownership of land, Hong Kong's land leasehold system and the government's fiscal interest in generating maximum revenue from land sales play a pivotal role in explaining gatedness. The big developers prefer and pay premiums for large sites that permit mixed use developments and high site intensity, which by use regulations are required to be gated, while their property management subsidiaries also promote gating because such estates are cheaper and easier to manage. Thus, the extent of gatedness is largely the consequence of Hong Kong's use of land as a resource, its built form, the nature of its real estate and property management industries, and the articulation of these factors.

Poor People, Council Housing and the Right to Buy*

Abstract: Data from the authors' qualitative study of decision-making in low income households casts new light on council house sales in a least-favoured housing estate. Under pressure from rising rents and rumours of privatisation, poor tenants are deciding to buy their houses as a way of securing their future in the area and controlling their personal environment, rather than as an escape from a residual ‘ghetto’ of welfare housing. This raises a number of issues in relation to current theories about housing tenure, especially those which distinguish sharply between the material and ideological bases of owner occupation and local authority tenancy. The authors argue that their respondents' reasons for wanting to buy do not constitute a rejection of collectivism as much as an attempt to preserve the endangered advantages of their situation on the estate.

Black Family Formation and Tenancy in the Farm South, 1900

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between family formation and the extent of farm tenancy among blacks in the rural South at the turn of the century. the primary data source is a one-in-750 sample of households taken from the 1900 manuscript census. The findings show that age at marriage for black farmers was significantly negatively related to the proportion of farmers was significantly negatively related to the proportion of farmers who were tenants (chare and cash) in the couple's county of residence. Early marital child-bearing appears to have been unresponsive to the level of farmtenancy, althoug there is indirect evidence that facundity may have varied inversely with tenancy. It is inferred that the wide adoption of the "tenancy sistem" after the Civil War relaxed or prevented cultural restraints on early marriage. Furthermore, it is speculated that the rapid family formation and the family-based mide of production typical of tenancy trapped many black farmers in the stagnant southern agricultura...