Slums, tenants and home-ownership: on blindness to the obvious
Slums, tenants and home-ownership: on blindness to the obvious
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贫民窟、租户和房屋所有权：对显而易见的事物视而不见
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2008
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A. Gilbert
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在地球仪的各个城市中，可能有多达10亿的租户，但大多数政府仍然忽视他们。尽管他们承认房客的存在，但政策是把他们变成房主。即使在英国和美国，这一策略已经实施了几年，但在过去十年中也未能减少租户数量。随着次贷危机的爆发，租户的比例可能会上升。在世界其他地区，很少有政府认识到租房是一种重要的住房选择。这一观点说明了为什么租户和房东不太可能消失，并解释了为什么对许多人来说，租房是一种重要的住房选择。从根本上说，这是对终身中立住房政策的呼吁。
Up to one billion tenants may be living in cities across the globe, but most governments continue to ignore them. Insofar as they recognise that tenants exist, the policy is to turn them into home-owners. Even in the UK and US, where this strategy has been underway for some years, it has not managed to reduce the numbers of tenants during the last decade. With the sub-prime crisis, the proportion of tenants is likely to rise. In the rest of the world, few governments recognise that renting is an essential shelter option. This viewpoint demonstrates why tenants and landlords are not likely to disappear, and explains why, for many, renting is a vital housing option. Fundamentally, it is a plea for a tenure-neutral shelter policy.