Title: Absentee landlord - Wikipedia
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Absentee landlord
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In Ireland before 1903
On Prince Edward Island before 1867
In Palestine before 1948
See also
References
Further reading

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Absentee landlord
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In economics, an absentee landlord is a person who owns and rents out a profit -earning property, but does not live within the property's local economic region. The term "absentee ownership" was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen 's 1923 book of the same name, Absentee Ownership. When used in a local context, the term refers to a landlord of a house or other real estate, who leases the property to tenants, but fails to ensure that proper maintenance is done on it, or does only the minimum required by law (the term slumlord is also used to describe such a person). This, in turn, leads to what may appear to be abandoned buildings, causing significantly lowered property values and urban blight. Overall, tax policy seems to favour absentee ownership. However, some jurisdictions seek to extract money from absentee owners by taxing land. Absentee ownership has sometimes put the absentee owners at risk of loss. Contents
1 In Ireland before 1903
2 On Prince Edward Island before 1867
3 In Palestine before 1948
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
In Ireland before 1903
Absentee landlords were a highly significant issue in the history of Ireland. During the course of 16th and 17th centuries, most of the land in Ireland was confiscated from Irish Catholic landowners during the Plantations of Ireland and granted to Scottish and English settlers who were members of the established churches (the Church of England and the Church of Ireland at the time); in Ulster, many of the landowners were Scottish Presbyterians.