Competition between Social and Private Rental Housing

Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The definitions of social and private renting -- Competition and rental housing markets in the housing literature -- The traditional structure-conduct-performance paradigm -- The structure-conduct-performance of rental housing -- Research approach and key questions -- Methodological approach and data -- Outline of the thesis -- Rental housing systems in England and the Netherlands -- Rental housing in England -- The landlords -- The tenants -- Rental housing in the Netherlands -- The landlords -- The tenants -- The case study cities Coventry and Breda -- Coventry in context -- Breda in context -- Conclusions -- Market structure: The competitiveness of mixed rental markets -- An analytical framework of perfect competition in mixed rental markets -- Supply and spatial concentration -- Barriers to entry provision and access consumption -- Product differentiation -- Perfect competition and the mixed rental markets in Coventry and Breda -- Conclusion -- Landlord conduct: Perceptions of rivalry and rivalrous behaviour -- An analytical framework of conscious rivalry in mixed rental markets -- Landlords' perceptions of rivalry and their competitive strategies -- Forms of rivalry in the mixed rental markets of Coventry and Breda -- The drivers of and barriers to rivalry between social and private landlords -- Conclusion -- Market performance: The possible effects of competition in mixed rental markets -- The concept of performance in the literature -- Performance as a mainstream economic concept -- The nonprofit view on performance -- Performance in the housing literature -- An analytical framework of performance in mixed rental markets -- The possible effects of competition in the mixed rental markets of Coventry and Breda -- Landlord-level effects -- Wider market effects.