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How the Other Half Lives: An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Poverty and Home-ownership in Britain

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  • Roger Burrows

    (Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, Heslington, York, Y010 5DD, UK. rjb7@york.ac.uk)

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This paper examines the extent and nature of poverty amongst home-owners in Britain using data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE) Survey. It concludes that the proportion of the poor who are home-owners is very much higher than one might have surmised from an acquaintance with the great bulk of previous research on poverty and housing policy. It can be asserted with confidence that home-owners constitute about half the poor in Britain. The paper describes the socioeconomic characteristics of poor home-owners and compares and contrasts them with the poor living in the other housing tenures. It also examines how the outcomes of poverty differ between the tenures. Some of the policy implications of the analysis are also discussed.

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  • Roger Burrows, 2003. "How the Other Half Lives: An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Poverty and Home-ownership in Britain," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 40(7), pages 1223-1242, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:40:y:2003:i:7:p:1223-1242
    DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000084578
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    1. E. Bárcena-Martín & S. Pérez-Moreno, 2017. "Immigrant–native gap in poverty: a cross-national European perspective," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 15(4), pages 1105-1136, December.
    2. Tim Brown & Peter King, 2005. "The Power to Choose: Effective Choice and Housing Policy," International Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 59-97.
    3. Alan Murie, 2009. "The Modernisation Of Housing In England," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 100(4), pages 535-548, September.

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