Václav Walach, Petr Kupka, Alica Brendzová
“The Landlord Treads on Them, so Everything’s Fine”
Číslo: 4/2021
Periodikum: Sociální práce
Klíčová slova: exploitation, forced mobility, eviction, rental housing, private landlords, Roma
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Anotace:
OBJECTIVES: This study explores the representation of the private landlords’ practices
that may contribute to housing insecurity and forced mobility in Czech segregated areas.
THEORETICAL BASE: Following debate on the “poverty business”, the study uses literature
on Roma marginalization, sociology of eviction and housing studies. METHODS: The thematic
analysis of 167 documents published mainly by the Agency of Social Inclusion was conducted.
OUTCOMES: The landlords’ practices are analyzed in four areas: overcharging rent and other
payments, tenancy contracts, disinvestment, and coercion. Their relation to housing security and
eviction is pointed out. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: Social workers shall continue to
embrace the issue of exploitative practices in private rental housing and use social work methods
to reduce the power asymmetry in the tenant-landlord relationships, prevent eviction, and improve
rental and housing conditions. Tenant stigmatization should be countered by exposing the agency
of other actors and structural factors that co-produce housing insecurity and forced mobility.
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that may contribute to housing insecurity and forced mobility in Czech segregated areas.
THEORETICAL BASE: Following debate on the “poverty business”, the study uses literature
on Roma marginalization, sociology of eviction and housing studies. METHODS: The thematic
analysis of 167 documents published mainly by the Agency of Social Inclusion was conducted.
OUTCOMES: The landlords’ practices are analyzed in four areas: overcharging rent and other
payments, tenancy contracts, disinvestment, and coercion. Their relation to housing security and
eviction is pointed out. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: Social workers shall continue to
embrace the issue of exploitative practices in private rental housing and use social work methods
to reduce the power asymmetry in the tenant-landlord relationships, prevent eviction, and improve
rental and housing conditions. Tenant stigmatization should be countered by exposing the agency
of other actors and structural factors that co-produce housing insecurity and forced mobility.