MULTI-OWNED HOUSING
Multi-owned Housing
Law, Power and Practice
Edited by
SARAH BLANDY
University of Leeds, UK
ANN DUPUIS
Massey University, New Zealand
JENNIFER DIXON
University of Auckland, New Zealand
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Multi-owned housing : law, power and practice.
1. Housing management--Law and legislation--Cross-cultural studies. 2. Comparative law.
I. Blandy, Sarah. II. Dixon, Jennifer. III. Dupuis, Ann, 1946-
346'.0434-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blandy, Sarah.
Multi-owned housing : law, power and practice / by Sarah Blandy, Ann Dupuis and Jennifer Dixon.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7566-2 (hbk) 1. Common interest ownership communities--Law and legislation. I. Dupuis, Ann, 1946- II. Dixon, Jennifer (Jennifer E.) III. Title.
K738.B58 2010
346.042--dc22
2009052465
ISBN 9780754675662 (hbk)
Contents
Ann Dupuis, Sarah Blandy and Jennifer Dixon
Sarah Blandy
Douglas S. Robertson
Evan McKenzie
Rachelle Alterman
Alice Christudason
Ngai Ming Yip
Feng Wang
Michael Bounds
Cathy Sherry
Kelly Cassidy, Chris Guilding and Jan Warnken
Ann Dupuis and Jennifer Dixon
Jennifer Dixon and Marjorie van Roon
Sarah Blandy, Ann Dupuis and Jennifer Dixon
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Professor Rachelle Alterman holds the David Azrieli Chair in Architecture/Town Planning at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and heads the Center of Urban and Regional Studies there. A planner and lawyer, Dr Alterman has written numerous publications on comparative planning law, property rights, and planning theory, and is the founding president of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights.
Sarah Blandy is a Senior Lecturer in property law at the University of Leeds. She has led and contributed to many empirical research projects and has written widely on housing and property law issues from a socio-legal perspective, including both academic publications and practitioner papers.
Dr Michael Bounds is an Associate Professor (adjunct) with the Urban Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney and a Director of Cambridge Examinations, Australia. He was formerly Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute at the Universities of Western Sydney and of New South Wales with the Urban Research Centre. He has undertaken extensive research into public housing in Australia and the UK and is the author of a number of books, articles and reports on housing, urban development and on urban social theory.
Dr Kelly Cassidy is a Senior Research Fellow in the Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management department at Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus), Australia. She has researched and written on strata title management for both academic and industry audiences, and was a member of the organising committee for the 2005 and 2007 Strata and Community Title in Australia for the 21st Century conferences.
Dr Alice Christudason is an Associate Professor teaching real property law at the National University of Singapore whose research interests include strata and real estate law as well as educational pedagogy. She is actively involved in legislative reform, including invited representations before Singapores Parliamentary Select Committees on the Land Titles (Strata) and the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Bills. She is the lead contributor to Halsburys Laws of Singapore: Land and has published widely in various international journals.
Professor Jennifer Dixon is Professor of Planning and Dean, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland, New Zealand. With Ann Dupuis, she undertook research on the operation of bodies corporate in the Auckland region that led to the first review of the Unit Titles Act 1972. Professor Dixon is Chair of the Centre for Housing Research, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Dr Ann Dupuis is Associate Professor of Sociology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. Her research and publications in the field of urban studies focus on housing wealth and inheritance, urban intensification, urban governance issues and gated communities.
Professor Chris Guilding works with Griffith Universitys department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management. His research and publications now have a particular focus on strata titled property management, and he has acted as chairperson for the Griffith hosted Strata and Community Title in Australia for the 21st Century conferences held in 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Dr Evan McKenzie is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an Adjunct Professor at the John Marshall Law School, where he teaches the law of condominium and homeowner associations. He is the author of Privatopia (Yale University Press 1994), one of the earliest and most enduringly influential books on common interest housing and homeowner associations, as well as numerous book chapters and articles on common interest housing. His current research focus is on the ways American municipalities promote the creation of private residential governments, and the consequences of such practices.
Professor Douglas S. Robertson is an expert in Scottish private housing, especially flatted property. He is head of the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling. His comparative research was highly influential in the introduction of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. Current research interests focus on the governance implications arising from recent property law reforms, namely leasehold and commonhold reform in England and Wales, and Titles and Burdens and the Law of the Tenement reforms in Scotland.
Marjorie van Roon
