This article discusses the theoretical foundations of the concept of jurisdictional uncertainty, which means, the uncertainties associated to the settlement of contracts in the Brazilian jurisdiction, and that manifests itself predominantly as an anti-saver and anti-creditor bias. According to Arida et al (2005), Brazilian judges tend to favor the weak part in the claim, not the just, as a form...

Abstract Eviction filing rates have declined in many large cities the United States. Existing scholarship on eviction, which focuses discrete tenant-landlord relationships, has few explanations for this decline. I consider whether community organizing by nonprofit organizations shapes social organization of communities and causes landlords to file fewer eviction filings. In where tenant anti-po...

We consider a rent control regime where rent increases on, and eviction of, a sitting tenant are not allowed. However when an apartment becomes vacant the landlord is free to negotiate a new rent. We argue that this stylized system is a good (though polar) approximation for many rent control regimes existent today in several U.S. cities and the world over. Under such a regime, if inflation exis...

The paper analyses a particular type of housing arrangement between owner of a housing unit and owner of the land on which it is sited, where the unit is partially or totally immobile. While the focus is on mobile-home parks, the analysis is also applicable to certain condominium and cooperative housing. After exploring reasons for divided asset ownership, the possibility that divided ownership...

Rising rents play an important role in the displacement of residents through gentrification processes Germany. Applying interactionist approach and conceptualising as emergent phenomenon that results from interaction process, we explore how gentrifying district Altona-Altstadt Hamburg deal with situations rent increases. Four strategies emerge: de-problematisation, unwilling consent, changing f...

Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, localities across United States have been given unprecedented short-term rental assistance funding and considerable flexibility in its distribution. The emergency nature these programs suggests that administrative burden placed on participants should be lower than typical such as housing choice voucher program. Yet there are several features unique to housi...