It could also incorporate factors such as tenancy security, for example, by taking into account the average length of tenancies in a given area.
Many social housing tenancy agreements, for example, still prohibit running a business from home.
At present, council tenants keep their property for life unless they breach their tenancy agreement, for example, by engaging in anti-social behaviour.
But it does offer a little automated help with parsing wordy tenancy agreements to, for example, extract salient details such as fees in an effort to empower a downtrodden section of society.
For example if a tenant is not occupying the property due to actual or threatened violence towards them, or a family member residing with them for the same reason; if the landlord has consented to the subletting; or, where the remaining occupier (not the tenant) can apply to court for a transfer of the tenancy (under family law legislation, for example).
One of the big ways in which Change Please differs from the Big Issue is the way in which it provides support – for example, underwriting tenancy agreements so employees can actually rent a house.
If such a clause is not included in a tenancy for a fixed period - for example six months - the tenant is usually responsible for the rent for the whole period, even if they move out before that period ends.
During those three years, rent increases will be limited, presumably to inflation or something near it.Some of this depends on the detail: presumably there will be some means for landlords to dissolve a tenancy early if a house has to be sold, for example, or if a tenant is particularly difficult.
Fair housing advocates fear that the justices will strike down this latter standard, known as "disparate impact", making it easier for providers to segregate in subtle and hard-to-prove ways, for example through mortgage-lending strategies or tenancy restrictions.
Andreia Oliveria-Miguel, 24, for example, lost her secure social housing tenancy essentially because she was a victim of stalking: "My fear was my stalker having a bad day, seeing me, raping me or killing me".
