NEW TENANT PROTECTION LAW.
The obstacles in the . way of a person desiring'to purchase a house (if the person has Sufficient money) have not been nearly so formidable as those which face the man or woman who wants a house to rent, but the conditions will be materially altered by the legislative amendment which the House of Representatives passed this morning. A >crson who buys a house must now find • "suitable alternative accommodation" for the j tenant, or else convince a Conrt that his | hardship in being excluded from his own ' house will be greater than the tenant's' hardship in being evicted. The onus of proving that "suitable alternative accommodation" is available is on the landlord. It appears that the principal effect of this latest example of legislative tinkering will be to discourage people from buying houses, and to make 1 house-owners extremely chary of letting their property. That it will prevent some bad cases of hardship need not be doubted, but, at best, it is juat another palliative. The Government would have done better to consider seriously the removal of obstacles to the building of . new houses, which alone can reduce the I (existing shortage. ■ I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 6
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