The bedroom tax

Gibbons, Stephen; Sánchez-Vidal, María; Silva, Olmo

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2018.12.002

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“…Gibbons et al (2018) analyze a UK reform that reduced housing benefits for social housing tenants deemed to have a "spare" bedroom, with the aim of promoting mobility and the reallocation of the social housing stock to better match households' size and needs. Although the policy was not successful in encouraging mobility, it did incentivize those who moved to downsize.C 2019 The Authors.…”

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Housing Allowance and Rents: Evidence from a Stepwise Subsidy Scheme*

Eerola

Lyytikäinen

2020

Scandinavian J Economics

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In this paper, we study the effect of housing demand subsidies on rents using discontinuities in the Finnish housing allowance system as a quasi‐experimental setting. The stepwise dependence of housing allowance on the floor area of the dwelling and on the year of construction of the building causes economically and statistically significant discontinuities in the amounts of housing allowances. However, our results show that there are no discontinuities in the rents paid by the recipients of housing allowance at these cut‐offs. Instead, differences in the amounts of housing allowance are translated roughly one‐to‐one into differences in the rent net of housing allowance.

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Housing Allowance and Rents: Evidence from a Stepwise Subsidy Scheme*

Eerola

Lyytikäinen

2020

Scandinavian J Economics

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“…Downsizing, or seeking to downsize, was a more common solution, although smaller units were not always readily available. Gibb (2013) notes that the availability of smaller social housing can vary dramatically between parts of the UK. A small number of interviewees with social tenancies had been able, with assistance from advice workers, to arrange swaps with families in different local government districts who required more space, but in the process could lose relationships with advice providers and support workers in their former authority.…”

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Destitution and Paths to Justice

2020

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Introduction How is destitution defined in law? The legal definition and the JRF definition The state's duty to prevent/relieve destitution A legal perspective on routes into destitution Social security Debt Housing Social security and destitution Legal support for problems of destitution Case studies on destitution and paths to justice Key recommendations 1. A statutory duty on destitution 2. Resourcing legal interventions 3. Access to social security Emerging recommendations on debt and housing Further research appreciating that they have a justiciable problem is offset by the inability to secure advice and support to deal with that problem and the underlying causes, compounded by the extraordinary difficulties the individual faces in managing their destitute circumstances. Three main recommendations emerge from the data to deal with this. First, resource advice services to identify problem clusters, rather than only being able to focus on the problems their service can assist with. Second, provide partial reinstatement of legal aid funding to support preventative and remedial action that will help avoid destitution, primarily in the areas of housing, debt and social security, particularly appeals against sanctions. Third, co-locate legal and health services and enable crisis and support workers to identify justiciable issues that clients need help to deal with.

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“…For example, should there be subsidy for people to have space above legal minimums but not above societal norms? In the UK this issue has taken the form of debates over the so-called 'bedroom tax' of 2012, which reduced housing allowances for low-income social renters with more space than the minimum (Carr, 2016;Gibbons, Sanchez-Vidal, & Silva, 2018).…”

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Is Housing Growth Ever Inclusive Growth? Evidence from Three Decades of Housing Development in England and Wales, 1981–2011

Tunstall

2020

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There is global concern about who gains from economic growth, including housing development, and global interest in making growth more inclusive. This article creates a new definition of ‘housing growth,’ growth in median space per person. It says that this housing growth is ‘inclusive’ if the worst-off make some gains, and ‘just’ if inequality does not increase. It applies these terms to data for 1981–2011 on rooms per person for England and Wales, the bulk of the UK, a nation with high income inequality but lower housing inequality. At national level, median housing space increased but the worst-off gained nothing, and inequality rose, so growth was neither inclusive nor just. Sub-national evidence shows that housing growth benefitted the worst-off in most areas, but they generally made very modest gains, and growth without increasing inequality was very rare. There was housing growth in all 10 regions except London, it was inclusive in 6 regions, but not just in any region. 97% of local authorities experienced housing growth, and it was inclusive in 72%, but the average gain for the worst-off was just 0.2 rooms/person over thirty years. Only 3% of local authorities achieved both inclusive and just growth. This suggests that in the UK and similar nations, local initiatives will be insufficient to achieve growth with significant gains for the worst-off, and that substantial change to the national system of housing development and allocation is needed. There may be a policy choice between benefitting the worst-off and reducing inequality. There is potential for further and comparative research.

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The bedroom tax

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Housing Allowance and Rents: Evidence from a Stepwise Subsidy Scheme*

Housing Allowance and Rents: Evidence from a Stepwise Subsidy Scheme*

Destitution and Paths to Justice

Is Housing Growth Ever Inclusive Growth? Evidence from Three Decades of Housing Development in England and Wales, 1981–2011

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