1st Edition

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

By Paul Oatt Copyright 2025
132 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Acknowledgements

 

List of Abbreviations

 

Introduction

 

Eviction and Its Health Effects

 

The Effectiveness of Housing Policy Development

 

The Unintended Effects of Housing Policy Implementation 

 

Housing Policy, Social Inequalities and Equitability.

 

Housing Policy, Cost and Implementation

 

Housing Policy Implementation, Feasibility and Acceptability

 

Reforming the Private Rented Sector

 

Index

Biography

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).