David Hughes is Professor of Housing and Planning Law at De Montfort University. He is author of many key texts in the fields of public sector housing law and environmental law. Stuart Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York. He has written extensively about British housing policy in books and journals.

"I am delighted to welcome a book that focuses on private rented housing and the role it continues to play in the housing market. The issues considered here will be of great interest to policy makers and those thinking about the development of housing law." Martin Partington, Law Commissioner for England and Wales

• Contents: The new private rented sector David Hughes and Stuart Lowe; Private renting in the 21st century: lessons from the last decade of the 20th century A.D.H. Crook; Housing benefit and social security Steve Wilcox; Rents and returns in the residential lettings market David Rhodes and Peter Kemp; The private rented sector in rural areas Phil Hancock; Rental housing supply in rural Scotland: the role of private landowners Madhu Satsangi; The nature of tenancy relationships: landlords and young people Diane Lister; Unlawful eviction and harassment Jill Morgan; Changing Rooms: the legal and policy implications of a burgeoning student housing market in Leicester Martin Davis and David Hughes; The Scottish system of licensing houses in multiple occupation Hector Currie; Housing conditions in the private rented sector within a market framework A.D.H. Crook; Room for improvement: the impact of the local authority grant system Mike Ellison; New law, new policy David Hughes and Stuart Lowe.

David Hughes is Professor of Housing and Planning Law at De Montfort University. He is author of many key texts in the fields of public sector housing law and environmental law. Stuart Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York. He has written extensively about British housing policy in books and journals.

"I am delighted to welcome a book that focuses on private rented housing and the role it continues to play in the housing market. The issues considered here will be of great interest to policy makers and those thinking about the development of housing law." Martin Partington, Law Commissioner for England and Wales

• Contents: The new private rented sector David Hughes and Stuart Lowe; Private renting in the 21st century: lessons from the last decade of the 20th century A.D.H. Crook; Housing benefit and social security Steve Wilcox; Rents and returns in the residential lettings market David Rhodes and Peter Kemp; The private rented sector in rural areas Phil Hancock; Rental housing supply in rural Scotland: the role of private landowners Madhu Satsangi; The nature of tenancy relationships: landlords and young people Diane Lister; Unlawful eviction and harassment Jill Morgan; Changing Rooms: the legal and policy implications of a burgeoning student housing market in Leicester Martin Davis and David Hughes; The Scottish system of licensing houses in multiple occupation Hector Currie; Housing conditions in the private rented sector within a market framework A.D.H. Crook; Room for improvement: the impact of the local authority grant system Mike Ellison; New law, new policy David Hughes and Stuart Lowe.