when renting a house in the informal market tenants can be denied access to public services such as health and education which is particularly damaging to migrants while a number of possible strategies to boost the rental housing market could be proposed it will be important for kazakhstan to begin with broad measures targeting the fiscal regulator and legal framework to ensure a more balanced treatment between rental housing and home ownership these efforts should be prioritised in a coherent national policy for rental housing authorities should proceed with caution peppercorn and taffin suggest that the introduction of a more robust rental policy component to housing policy should be properly sequenced first assessment second legal third tax fourth finance and fifth subsidies kazakhstan needs to define a rental housing policy approach