Durrant, D;
Brill, F;
(2023)
Shrinking aspirations: the potential impact of Build to Rent models on housing transitions.
In: Harris, Ella and Nowicki, Mel and White, Tim, (eds.)
The Growing Trend of Living Small: A Critical Approach to Shrinking Domesticities.
(pp. 61-73).
Routledge: London, UK.
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Type: | Book chapter |
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Title: | Shrinking aspirations: the potential impact of Build to Rent models on housing transitions |
ISBN-13: | 9780367764463 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.4324/9781003173052-7 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This chapter examines the form of domesticity offered by build to rent (BTR). This is a model of investor-led rental housing introduced and promoted in the United Kingdom as an improvement on the current private rented sector and a solution to the problems of limited housing supply and decreasing affordability of homeownership. The model appears to be configured largely around the needs of investors and managers, both in terms of domestic space and the form of ‘curated domesticity’ offered by the package of amenities that are a key part of BTR developments. As a premium form of housing, BTR is clearly targeted towards tenants at a particular stage in their housing careers when the combination of flexibility and amenity fits their domestic and financial calculations. As these calculations are likely to change, we question the extent to which the model can meet the domestic aspirations of tenants over the course of a whole lifetime. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166247 |
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