Using the British Household Panel Survey to explore changes in housing tenure in England

Tom Sefton

CASE Papers from Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE

Abstract: Very little information exists about households' longer-term movements between tenures. Some cross-section datasets include information on length of stay in any residence but we have no systematic study of movement over time. This study uses the British Household Panel Study to examine movements by households over a ten-year period - 1994/5 and 2004/5. Changes in tenure are related to key life events - leaving home, marriage, having children, widowhood and retirement. The great majority of owner-occupiers remained in that tenure. This was somewhat less for those experiencing divorce or unemployment. Most public housing tenants remained in that tenure over the ten-year period especially the elderly and the unemployed or those outside the labour market. About a quarter moved into owner-occupation and half of those through the right to buy their dwelling. The analysis looks at the associations between moving into work and residential mobility, in particular the slower rate at which social tenants move back into employment.

Keywords: housing tenure; residential mobility; social housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-02
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