Chapter 2 - The Private Rented Sector
Private renting means housing that is owned by private individual, company or organisation. Private rented sector plays important role in providing accommodation for all sorts of different household and people. There have been increasing in the private rented sector over the past 25 to 30 years. There are now more than 9 million private renters in England. This growth has been particularly rapid since 2001 with the introduction of Buy to Let mortgage finance enabling prospect landlords to enter the market more easily (McFarlane, 2014). In addition, the increase in net immigration has had the greatest impact on the private rented sector because people coming into the UK are heavily concentrated in the private …show more content…
Recent migrants are likely to access the private rented sector; this is because the other housing options are not available to them. It can also be seen by them as flexible and relative affordable, this is because most newly arrived migrants access accommodation through their employers who they work for or friends. Most of the time they share accommodation with an unknown individual, while avoiding the conventional channels like the local authority and the mainstream advice agents or high street letting agencies. This means that letting is often informal and most possibly without legal agreements. The people who are given accommodation by their employers are often intimidated and are reluctant to report if something is wrong due to fear of losing their jobs (Perry …show more content…
The lack of right and knowledge on the part of migrants, lead to discrimination, exploitation and high rent from their landlord. The fear of losing their homes often leads to them to live in overcrowded accommodation lacking basic facilities such as furniture and security in order to make rent payment (Pemberton, et al 2014; Jayaweera, 2014). In most cases, migrants find it difficult or are vulnerable to complain or make demands about their housing right, especially the migrants who have their employers as their landlords. Their working conditions are often reported to be poor and sometimes dangerous. For example, working in unsocial hours and failure to comply with the employers ' demands can result in unemployment and loss of tying accommodation. Due to the low pay they receive, most of them cannot look for other accommodation because of affordability, therefore they comply with the employers ' demands and suffer from health risk and poor quality accommodation (Pemberton et al,
Private renting means housing that is owned by private individual, company or organisation. Private rented sector plays important role in providing accommodation for all sorts of different household and people. There have been increasing in the private rented sector over the past 25 to 30 years. There are now more than 9 million private renters in England. This growth has been particularly rapid since 2001 with the introduction of Buy to Let mortgage finance enabling prospect landlords to enter the market more easily (McFarlane, 2014). In addition, the increase in net immigration has had the greatest impact on the private rented sector because people coming into the UK are heavily concentrated in the private …show more content…
Recent migrants are likely to access the private rented sector; this is because the other housing options are not available to them. It can also be seen by them as flexible and relative affordable, this is because most newly arrived migrants access accommodation through their employers who they work for or friends. Most of the time they share accommodation with an unknown individual, while avoiding the conventional channels like the local authority and the mainstream advice agents or high street letting agencies. This means that letting is often informal and most possibly without legal agreements. The people who are given accommodation by their employers are often intimidated and are reluctant to report if something is wrong due to fear of losing their jobs (Perry …show more content…
The lack of right and knowledge on the part of migrants, lead to discrimination, exploitation and high rent from their landlord. The fear of losing their homes often leads to them to live in overcrowded accommodation lacking basic facilities such as furniture and security in order to make rent payment (Pemberton, et al 2014; Jayaweera, 2014). In most cases, migrants find it difficult or are vulnerable to complain or make demands about their housing right, especially the migrants who have their employers as their landlords. Their working conditions are often reported to be poor and sometimes dangerous. For example, working in unsocial hours and failure to comply with the employers ' demands can result in unemployment and loss of tying accommodation. Due to the low pay they receive, most of them cannot look for other accommodation because of affordability, therefore they comply with the employers ' demands and suffer from health risk and poor quality accommodation (Pemberton et al,