Besides the obvious benefits of renting furniture for homes and workplaces, there is still a huge lack for the need for rental furnishings long term.

It is clear that the need for long term furniture rental begins in communities where renters have friends and amenities surrounding them with room for their families to grow. However currently there is a regular pattern for neighbourhoods to be dedicated to just one type of renter, particularly buy to let residents in a smaller existing community. This of course makes it more difficult for long term renting communities to flourish.

There currently appears to be a sense of a higher accommodation provision for those who are young professionals than those that exist for families or retired couples and therefore communities that already exist seem to be one dimensional. However this does not mean that successful developments for building full communities cannot exist.

It seems the American model is definitely more promising. A trip across the Atlantic and a potential solution is leering complete with a wide range of homes ranging from detached family houses to retirement accommodation and flat share apartments. With a wide range of choices communities such as these are thriving with long term communities moving around the neighbourhood only when their circumstances change.

It seems that disparate nature of small-scale buy-to-let landlords makes it difficult for such communities to thrive, however if the institution can take on board the overarching view of what is required it can indeed create a prosperous community. With community residents enjoying a better place to live and landlords profiting from levels of higher occupancy, the model benefits everyone. A win-win scenario.

It has become apparent that promoting home ownership means people view their time in rented accommodation as transitory. It is of course not the renting that encourages this evident lack of respect, but the short-term nature of people’s time in rented accommodation. Only be creating these communities where people actually want to live and thrive will people embrace a sense of comfort, security and reassuring nature for renting long term.

There has been a general acceptance of widespread home ownership as a positive and empowering model, but is this actually the case? The truth is that home ownership is simply not suitable for everyone and It seems that only when it stops being considered transient will renting be deemed to be a positive choice