 House price increases and higher density housing occupation: the response of non-white households in London, 2001–2011Ron Johnston, Dewi Owen, David Manley and Richard Harris International Journal of Housing Policy, 2016, vol. 16, issue 3, 357-375 Abstract: London's housing prices have increased over recent decades at a much faster rate than incomes creating financial and quality-of-life problems for many of its inhabitants. This increase has occurred during a period of population growth, much of it of immigrant lower income individuals, families and households, and their descendants who are members of London's burgeoning ethnic minority populations. This paper explores whether members of such groups have suffered disproportionately from those problems and have had to respond by changing their patterns of housing consumption. It concludes that densification, whereby housing is occupied at higher densities, has been a common response to the problems, but that it has been experienced more than elsewhere in neighbourhoods where members of the ethnic minority groups are concentrated. Date: 2016 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:357-375 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1130607 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Housing Policy is currently edited by Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Gerard van Bortel and Richard Ronald More articles in International Journal of Housing Policy from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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