landlordism
Tenant-exploiting ownership system
Landlordism is a system or practice in which property owners collect rent from tenants, often with connotations of exploitation or concentrated land ownership.
The term typically carries critical overtones, suggesting that landlords extract wealth without productive contribution: Victorian reformers railed against landlordism as a form of parasitism.
It appears in political and economic discussions about housing policy and land reform.
Land-for-service social structure
- manorialismMedieval estate labor system
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- vassalageSubordination to a lord
- fiefdomFeudal territory under lord
patronage · agrarian · enclosure · absenteeism · rack-renting · tenant farming · sharecropping · ground rent
One who rents property
- renterOne who pays for housing
- leaseholderOne renting property
- occupantOne dwelling within
- lodgerRenting occupant of rooms
subtenant · eviction · lease · rent · arrears · deposit · notice · renewal
Property and grounds
- holdingsProperty one owns
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- realtyImmovable property ownership
title · deed · proprietorship · landownership · real estate · rental property · buy-to-let · housing stock
Superior influence over others
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- controlAuthority to direct
- extractionAct of removing
- subjugationForcing into submission
oppression · hegemony · class conflict · dispossession · eviction · coercion · rent-seeking · profiteering
Sharing out again differently
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
homesteading · tenants' rights · rent strike · cooperative housing · public housing · social housing · common ownership
feudalism
Land-for-service social structure
- manorialismMedieval estate labor system
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- vassalageSubordination to a lord
fiefdom · patronage · agrarian · enclosure · absenteeism · rack-renting · tenant farming · sharecropping · ground rent · primogeniture
tenant
One who rents property
- renterOne who pays for housing
- leaseholderOne renting property
- occupantOne dwelling within
lodger · subtenant · eviction · lease · rent · arrears · deposit · notice · renewal · occupancy
estate
Property and grounds
- holdingsProperty one owns
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
realty · title · deed · proprietorship · landownership · real estate · rental property · buy-to-let · housing stock · property management
dominance
Superior influence over others
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- controlAuthority to direct
- extractionAct of removing
subjugation · oppression · hegemony · class conflict · dispossession · eviction · coercion · rent-seeking · profiteering · speculation
redistribution
Sharing out again differently
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
collectivization · homesteading · tenants' rights · rent strike · cooperative housing · public housing · social housing · common ownership
- rentingtenant, rent, rental, renter, lease
- Irish Faminepotato blight, starvation, mass starvation, coffin ships, emigration
- land tenurefreehold, leasehold, tenancy, tenure system, demesne
landlordismcooperative housing
Collectively owned dwelling
homeownership · housing cooperatives · land reform · common ownership · public housing
land, landing, lands, landed, landlord, landlady, landlords, landholding, landlordship