The Impact of Neighbourhood on the Income and Mental Health of British Social Renters

Carol Propper, Simon Burgess (), Anne Bolster, George Leckie, Kelvyn Jones and Ron Johnston
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Anne Bolster: Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Bristol Institute ofPublicAffair.r, University of Bristol, 2 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 ITX, UK, anne. bolster@ bristol.ac.uk
George Leckie: Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Bristol Institute ofPublicAffair.r, University of Bristol, 2 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 ITX, UK, g.leckie@bristol.ac.uk
Kelvyn Jones: School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol, BS8 ISS, UK, kelvyn.jones@bristol.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2007, vol. 44, issue 2, 393-415

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of neighbourhood on the income and mental health of individuals living in social housing in the UK. It exploits a dataset that is representative and longitudinal to match people to their very local neighbourhoods. Using this, the paper examines the effect of living in a neighbourhood in which the population is more disadvantaged on the levels and change, over a 10-year window, of income and mental health. It is found that social renters who live with the most disadvantaged individuals as neighbours have lower levels of household income and poorer mental health. However, neighbourhood appears to have no impact on changes in either household income or individual mental health.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/00420980601075067

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