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Council House Sales and Residualization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

N.J. Williams ,
J. Sewel  and
F. Twine
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Abstract

It has been argued that council house sales will contribute towards a more general process of residualization of public sector housing. Empirical evidence is presented in this context derived from surveys of purchasers and non-purchasers of council dwellings in the city of Aberdeen. This evidence confirms that purchasers and non-purchasers exhibit different socio-economic characteristics and after only four years of the Right to Buy legislation significant numbers of households in social classes I, II and III have left the public sector via the mechanism of sales. The small number of sales relative to the stock as a whole, however, has meant that the overall contribution of sales towards residualization has been small. This evidence from Aberdeen is compared to evidence from elsewhere and related to the varying pattern of sales across the country as a whole.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 273 - 292
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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