rental housing

Leased living space

Rental housing is residential property occupied by tenants who pay rent to a landlord rather than owning the property themselves.

The term covers apartments, houses, and other dwellings available for lease: The city needs more affordable rental housing.

Rental housing stock refers to the total supply of such properties in an area.

Opposites
ownership arrangement

rental housinghomeownership

Legally possessing residential property

private ownership · housing cooperative · co-op housing

housing security/stability

rental housingancestral home

Family's original dwelling place

permanent residence · landed property · homelessness · houselessness · rough sleeping

market participation

rental housingpublic housing

Subsidized homes for poor

social housing · council housing · subsidized housing · communal housing · cooperative housing

Family

house, rent, housing, rental

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