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Inequality and Housing

University of Sussex

Tony O'Sullivan

University of Glasgow

Julian Le Grand

London School of Economics

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.

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