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Right to buy … time to move? Investigating the moving behaviour of right to buy owners in the UK

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Date
03/2013
Author
Van Ham, Maarten
Williamson, Lee
Feijten, Petra Maria
Boyle, Paul Joseph
Keywords
Right to buy
Residential mobility
Migration
Moving reasons
Longitudinal data
United Kingdom
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
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Abstract
Part of the political argument in favour of the right to buy (RTB) was that it would stimulate the economy by encouraging the inter-regional mobility of those in public sector housing. This is the first study to examine whether RTB-owners are indeed more mobile than those in social housing. Using longitudinal data from the British household panel survey and panel regression models we show that the probability of a RTB-owner making a long distance move falls between that of social renters and owner occupiers. However, the difference between RTB-owners and homeowners or social renters is not significant. Social renters are significantly less likely to move over long distances than traditional owners. The results also suggest that RTB-owners are less likely than traditional owners to move for job related reasons, but more likely than social renters.
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Van Ham , M , Williamson , L , Feijten , P M & Boyle , P J 2013 , ' Right to buy … time to move? Investigating the moving behaviour of right to buy owners in the UK ' , Journal of Housing and the Built Environment , vol. 28 , no. 1 , pp. 129-146 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-012-9296-3
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Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-012-9296-3
ISSN
1566-4910
Type
Journal article
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Copyright The Author(s) 2012. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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The authors acknowledge financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (RES-000-22-2460)
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  • Geography & Geosciences Research
  • Geography & Sustainable Development Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6562

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