2017/02/28 by Mark Stephens, Chris Leishman
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies #Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1080/02673037.2017.1291913
openalex publication_date 2017/02/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Cross-sectional research suggests that the British housing system weakens the link between income poverty and housing outcomes, but this reveals little about the long-term relationships. We examine the relationship between income poverty and housing pathways over an 18-year period to 2008, and develop consensual approaches to poverty estimation, housing deprivation, and the prevalence of under and over-consumption. We find that chronic poverty is most strongly associated with housing pathways founded in social renting, whereas housing pathways founded in owner-occupation are more strongly associated with temporary poverty. Whilst housing deprivation is disproportionately prevalent among those who experienced chronic poverty, the overwhelming majority of people who experienced chronic poverty avoided housing deprivation. This evidence supports of the notion that the housing system, during this period, weakened the link between poverty and housing deprivation. Therefore it can be characterised as representing a ‘sector regime’ with different distributional tendencies from the wider welfare regime.