Title:	“The Landlord Treads on Them, so Everything’s Fine”: Exploitation and Forced Mobility in Substandard Private Rental Housing in Czechia
Authors:	Walach, Václav Kupka, Petr Brendzová, Alice
Citation:	WALACH, V. KUPKA, P. BRENDZOVÁ, A. “The Landlord Treads on Them, so Everything’s Fine”: Exploitation and Forced Mobility in Substandard Private Rental Housing in Czechia. Sociální práce (Sociálna práca), 2021, roč. 21, č. 4, s. 132-148. ISSN: 1213-6204
Issue Date:	2021
Publisher:	Czech Association of Educators in Social Work
Document type:	článek article
URI:	2-s2.0-85120161652 http://hdl.handle.net/11025/47110
ISSN:	1213-6204
Keywords in different language:	exploitation;forced mobility;private landlords;rental housing;Roma
Abstract in different language:	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
Rights:	© authors
Appears in Collections:	Články / Articles (KSA) OBD

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