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The Sale of Council Houses Some Empirical Evidence

Institute for the Study of Sparsley Populated Areas

F. Twine

Department of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen

N. Williams

Department of Geography, at the University of Aberdeen

The pattern of council house sales in one housing authority, the City of Aberdeen, was monitored over a two year period since the 'Right to Buy' legislation came into force. The pattern of sales was variable, both spatially and between house types. Semi-detached and terraced properties sold at a greater rate than flatted properties, and estates with higher socio-economic status and a higher popularity rating experienced a greater level of sales. This suggests that over the medium to long term, a continued policy of unrestricted sales will have a deleterious effect on the desirability of the remaining public sector stock and will increase the pressures towards a residualisation of public sector housing.

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