Housing investment trusts: a new structure of rental housing provision?
Series: Housing Studies ; 17(5) September 2002, 741-753(13)Publication details: 2002Subject(s): Summary: This paper reports on qualitative interviews with financial institutions to examine why housing investment trusts have proved to be a policy failure. It is argued that the rules governing such trusts did not reflect the normal operations of a property company and that the existing structure of housing provision in the private rented sector was itself an obstacle to the modernisation of private landlordism. (TAKEN FROM JOURNAL HEADNOTE)| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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This paper reports on qualitative interviews with financial institutions to examine why housing investment trusts have proved to be a policy failure. It is argued that the rules governing such trusts did not reflect the normal operations of a property company and that the existing structure of housing provision in the private rented sector was itself an obstacle to the modernisation of private landlordism. (TAKEN FROM JOURNAL HEADNOTE)