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Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK

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  • Battiston, Diego
  • Dickens, Richard
  • Manning, Alan
  • Wadsworth, Jonathan

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This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent years immigrant households are slightly more likely than natives to be in social housing but once one controls for relevant household characteristics immigrants are significantly less likely to be in social housing than natives. However, there has been change over time – the immigrant penalty has fallen over time probably because of changes in allocation rules. Overall we find that the rising number of immigrants and the change in the allocation rules can explain about one-third of the fall in the probability of being in social housing with two-thirds being the result of the fall in the social housing stock.

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  • Battiston, Diego & Dickens, Richard & Manning, Alan & Wadsworth, Jonathan, 2014. "Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 60274, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:60274
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    3. Kitty Stewart & Kerris Cooper & Isabel Shutes, 2019. "What does Brexit mean for social policy in the UK? An exploration of the potential consequences of the 2016 referendum for public services, inequalities and social rights," CASE - Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers 03, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
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    6. Benoît SCHMUTZ & Grégory VERDUGO, 2020. "Do Politicians Shape the Electorate ? Evidence from French Municipalities," Working Papers 2020-18, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, revised 01 Apr 2021.

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    Keywords

    Immigration; social housing;

    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand

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