While 59 per cent of all tenancies were regulated in 1988, they decreased to a third in 1990 and 19 per cent in 1993.
Ten of the 17 whose tenancies failed were subsequently traced and interviewed.
By 1951, private tenancies, albeit still the most common form of tenure, were down to 45 per cent of the total stock.
By 1999/2000 there were over 150,000 regulated tenancies, just seven per cent of the total.
With assured tenancies, the landlord can increase rents every six months according to the market rates.
Compared with the assured tenancies, they have a considerable degree of security of tenure and greater secured rights of succession.
The largest segment of the poor, the contadini, 'owned no land and scrambled to enter into tenancies'.
In the case of the creation of mesne tenancies, relations between mesne and sitting tenants could be uneasy.
