Legal scholars and practitioners generally discuss laws that affect housing within the context of real property, landlord–tenant law, mortgage law, laws that forbid housing discrimination, laws that attempt to preserve affordable housing, etc.
The following is a list of housing-related statutes in different countries.
| Name | Date | Scope | Jurisdiction | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous Statutes (Housing Priority Initiatives) Amendment Act | 2016 | ||||
| The Cooperative Housing Strategy Act[1] | 2014 | Cooperative housing | |||
| Ontario Condominium Act, 1998 | 1998 | Condominiums | |||
| Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act | |||||
| Heritage Places Protection Act | Heritage properties | ||||
| Heritage Property Act | Heritage properties | ||||
| Heritage Property Act | Heritage properties | ||||
| Housing and Renewal Corporation Act[2] | 2010 | ||||
| Jesuit Estates Act | 1888 | ||||
| Land Purchase Act | 1875 | Land purchase | |||
| Mortgage Brokerages, Lenders and Administrators Act | |||||
| National Housing Act | Federal | ||||
| Ontario Heritage Act | |||||
| Property Transfer Tax Act[3] | Property transfer tax | ||||
| Protecting Condominium Owners Act, 2015 | |||||
| Real Estate and Business Brokers Act | |||||
| Régie du logement | |||||
| Residential Tenancies Act | Residential tenancy | ||||
| Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 | 2006 | Residential tenancy | |||
| Residential Tenancies Act (Manitoba)[4] | 1990 | Residential tenancy | |||
| Strata Property Act | |||||
| Trespass to Property Act | Provincial codification of the common law. Used by private-property owners to keep individuals off their property. |
| Name | Date | Scope | Jurisdiction | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1875 | Land transfers | ||||
| 1996 | (omnibus legislation) | ||||
| 2002 | Introduced common holds – a new way of owning land; similar to condominiums – into English and Welsh law. | ||||
| Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 | 1875 | ||||
| Building Act 1984 | 1984 | ||||
| Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 | 2022 | ||||
| Erection of Cottages Act 1588 | 1588 | ||||
| Fire Safety Act 2021 | 2021 | ||||
| Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 | 1946 | ||||
| Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 | |||||
| Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 | 2014 | ||||
| Housing Act 1930, 1933, 1935, 1969, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1996, 2004 | various | ||||
| Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885, 1890, 1900 | various | ||||
| Land Charges Act 1972 | |||||
| Land Registration Act 1925 | |||||
| Land Registration Act 2002 | |||||
| Law of Property Act 1925 | |||||
| Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 | |||||
| Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act 1864 | |||||
| Settled Land Acts | |||||
| Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004 | |||||
| Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 | |||||
| Vagrancy Act 1824 |
| Name | Date | Scope | Jurisdiction | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | Height limits | Created height restrictions because of concerns with new construction technology, notably steel, iron, and thin veneer facades. | |||
| 1910 | Height limits | Created height limits in Washington, D.C. | |||
| 1932 | Mortgages | Created Federal Home Loan Bank Board to charter and supervise federal savings and loans. Created Federal Home Loan Banks which lend to building and loan associations and other banking institutions to finance home mortgages. | |||
| 1934 | Mortgages | part of New Deal to make housing and home mortgages more affordable. Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC). | |||
| Housing Act of 1937 (aka Wagner-Steagall Act) | 1937 | Public Housing | Provided for subsidies to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHAs) to improve living conditions for low-income families. | ||
| 1949 | |||||
| 1954 | Public housing | Was to provide 140,000 units of public housing with preferential treatment to families relocated for slum eradication or revitalization. | |||
| 1963 | Discrimination | Preceded Fair Housing Act, but repealed. | |||
| 1965 | |||||
| 1968 | Mortgages | Established Ginnie Mae to expand availability of mortgage funds for moderate income families using government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities. The new entity was split from the former Fannie Mae, which retained other functions. | |||
| 1968 | Fire safety | ||||
| 1968 | Discrimination | Intended to protect the buyer or renter of a dwelling from seller or landlord discrimination. | |||
| 1970 | |||||
| 1970 | |||||
| 1974 | Affordable housing | Amended the Housing Act of 1937 to create Section 8 housing | |||
| 1974 | Buyer protection | Created to educate and protect prospective home buyers by adding disclosure requirements and eliminating kickbacks and referral fees to realty services. | |||
| 1974 | Fire safety | ||||
| 1974 | Mobile home safety | Established design and development safety standards for manufactured housing or prefabricated homes. | |||
| 1975 | Mortgages Discrimination | ||||
| 1977 | |||||
| 1982 | Mortgages | ||||
| 1987 | |||||
| 1987 | |||||
| 1992 | |||||
| 1994 | Mortgages | ||||
| 1994 | Mortgages | ||||
| 2007 | Mortgages | ||||
| 2008 | |||||
| 2009 | |||||
| 2009 | |||||
| 2009 | |||||
| 2009 | |||||
| 2013 | Mortgages | ||||
| 2014 | |||||
| Home Equity Theft Prevention Act | 2006 | A New York State law passed in 2006, to provide homeowners with information about the homeowner’s property, particularly when homeowners are in default on their mortgage payments |