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Income Multiples and Mortgage Potential

Centre for Housing Policy. University of York, Heslington, York YO1 SDD, UK

Ngai Ming Yip

Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York YO1 5DD, UK

In this paper we examine the potential of council tenants and private-sector renters in England to become owner-occupiers, using data from the 1988 General Household Survey (GHS). Methods pioneered by Littlewood in her analysis of data from the 1978 GHS are applied in this paper. A sensitivity analysis is also presented which shows the impact of different loan to income ratios on the ability of council and private-sector tenants to buy a dwelling. Finally, we consider the impact of the right to buy discounts on the ability of council tenants to buy their homes.

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