Journal Article
Housing need outcomes in England through changing times: demographic, market and policy drivers of change
Authors
Publication date
2016
Summary
The housing system in England has experienced unprecedented stress and instability over the last decade, absorbing the impact of demographic pressure, a credit-fuelled boom, financial crisis, recession and policy change. A failing supply system and unexpected tenure changes now confront austerity and welfare cutback. How have these conditions impacted on traditional and contemporary indicators of housing need and what does this tell us about the drivers and dynamics of housing need outcomes? Drawing mainly on analysis of large-scale longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys, linked to subregional market data, this paper describes and models the changes in housing need outcomes over two decades. It explores the impact of demography, market affordability, labour markets, tenure change and supply on these outcomes. Particular attention is paid to the persistence or recurrence of need in the context of different housing pathways and different market contexts, including the relationship with poverty.
Published in
Housing Studies
Volume and page numbers
31 , 243 -268
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2015.1080817
ISSN
16
Subjects
Area Effects, Regional Economics, Demography, Labour Market, Economics, Poverty, Public Policy, Family Formation And Dissolution, and Housing Market
Links
University of Essex, Albert Sloman Library Periodicals *restricted to University of Essex registered users* - http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1598948~S5
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