Private Sector Housing and Health: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regulation Intended to Protect the...

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Paul Oatt

Private Sector Housing and Health

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regulation Intended to Protect the Health of Tenants

Paul Oatt

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Routledge
10 July 2024

Homelessness; Environment law; Housing law

Series: Routledge Focus on Environmental Health

This book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England’s private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies. From the environmental health practitioner perspective, the targeted health problem is occupiers privately renting from negligent or criminal landlords who are subsequently exposed to hazardous conditions arising from disrepair.

Paul Oatt’s analysis looks at the powers local authorities have to address retaliatory eviction when enforcing against housing disrepair and digs deeper into their duties to prevent homelessness and powers to protect tenants from illegal eviction. He then explores the potential for tenants to take private action against landlords over failures to address disrepair, before finally discussing proposals put forward by the government to abolish retaliatory evictions and improve security of tenure with changes to contractual arrangements between landlords and tenants, based on successive stakeholder consultations. The policy analysis looks at these aspects to define the overall effectiveness of housing strategies and their implementation, examining causality, plausibility and intervention logic as well as the unintended effects on the population. Equitability is examined to see where policy effects create inequalities as well as the costs, feasibility and acceptability of policies from landlords' and tenants’ perspectives.

The book will be of relevance to professionals interested in housing and health, as well as students at universities that teach courses in environmental health, public health, and housing studies.

By: Paul Oatt
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781032693057
ISBN 10: 1032693053
Series: Routledge Focus on Environmental Health
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 10 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Oatt is Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in local government housing regulation up to the management level. He qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Health from Middlesex University and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Paul is currently a doctoral student at Middlesex University and works part-time as a course trainer and lecturer in the subjects of environmental health and public health. Also, he tutors at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of Selective Licensing: The Basis for a Collaborative Approach to Addressing Health Inequalities (2019).