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Inequality and Housing

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ID10864985
AuthorsRay Robinson (0000-0002-7297-8249, University of Sussex, corresponding author), Tony O’Sullivan (University of Glasgow), Tony O'Sullivan (University of Glasgow), Julian Le Grand (0000-0002-7864-0118, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Year1985
Volume22
Issue3
Pages249-256
Publication date1985-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00420988520080381
OpenAlexW2138909071
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited10

This paper seeks to provide a measure of housing inequality across the entire household population. Rateable values are used as an informed assessment of the flow of housing services yeilded by a particular dwelling, and the Atkinson inequality index is applied to a data set obtained from the Family Expenditure Surveys of 1968 and 1978. The results indicate that though income inequality has increased over this period, overall housing inequality did not increase. Tenure specific analysis suggests that this is largely the result of inter-tenure moves, and that local Authority housing policy has succeeded in driving a wedge between general economic inequality and inequality in public sector housing

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Housing tenure · Income inequality metrics · Index (typography · Inequality · Labour economics · Population · Public housing · Social inequality · Sociology · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Mathematics

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Unique citing works9
Citations per year0,23
Citation span1986 - 2020 (35)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 8

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