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Council Housing, Tenure Polarisation and Older People in Two Contrasting Localities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Robin Means
Robin Means
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Research Fellow, School for Advanced Urban Studies, University of Bristol, Rodney Lodge, Grange Road, Bristol BS8 4EA.
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Abstract

This article attempts to illustrate the importance of housing issues in old age and to argue for a more sophisticated view of older people than that achieved by much housing research. Tenure relationships in two contrasting localities are explored and it is shown that cruder models of social and tenurial polarisation need to be treated with care because of the tendency for aggregate data to hide important variations in relationships between tenures and within tenures. Many older people wish to enter local authority council housing and they have strong views on what is the ‘best’ and ‘worst’ property on offer.

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Ageing & Society , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1988 , pp. 395 - 421
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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