Cho, Youngha and Whitehead, Christine M E (2013) The immobility of social tenants: is it true? Does it matter? Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 28 (4). pp. 705-726. ISSN 1566-4910
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The low level of residential mobility in England, particularly in the social sector, has been a continuing topic both in the literature and among policy makers. The period 1995–2007 was one of relatively rapid tenure change as well as sustained economic growth which could be expected to have increased mobility across tenures but also the costs of immobility in both the labour and housing markets. It was also a period where allocations to the social sector were increasingly concentrated among more vulnerable households. Given these trends does social housing continue to stand out as particularly immobile? If so is the relative immobility an outcome of who lives in social housing rather than how the sector is managed? And do low levels of mobility have significant negative impacts generating labour market inefficiencies and poor use of social housing? This paper uses Survey of English Housing data for the decade of growth from the mid 1990s to examine the drivers of mobility across tenures and how these have changed over the period, with particular emphasis on outcomes in the social sector. These drivers are described and modelled for the study period and suggest that social sector tenants with similar characteristics are much less mobile than households in other tenures but that the costs of this immobility, while difficult to quantify may well be quite limited.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://link.springer.com/journal/10901 |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht |
| Divisions: | Economics Spatial Economics Research Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2013 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Apr 2024 14:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49425 |
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