This study focuses on the relationship between psychological health and employment status in a rural island community. Comparisons are made between different groups within and between the island population and more urban populations reported in other studies. Within the island differences are reported between men and women. For men psychological health varied, especially between the employed and the unemployed. For women no such comparable differences emerged. Although the differences that were found in the island population were of the same kind as reported from urban populations, they were very much less pronounced. It is argued that the relationship between psychological health and employment status can be modified by and is better understood through reference to the local social and community context.

The pattern of council house sales in one housing authority, the City of Aberdeen, was monitored over a two year period since the `Right to Buy' legislation came into force . The pattern of sales was variable, both spatially and between house types. Semi-detached and terraced properties sold at a greater rate than flatted properties, and estates with higher socio-economic status and a higher popularity rating experienced a greater level of sales . This suggests that over the medium to long term, a continued policy of unrestricted sales will have a deleterious effect on the desirability of the remaining public sector stock and will increase the pressures towards a residualisation of public sector housing .

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The Conservative victory in the 1979 General Election marked a major turning point in British housing policy and a significant change in the fortunes of public sector housing. The Conservatives were committed to an expansion of individualistic and private provision, and a retreat from collectivist provision, over

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