Mullan, K and Sutherland, H and Zantomio, F (2011) 'Accounting for Housing in Poverty Analysis.' Social Policy and Society, 10 (4). 471 - 482. ISSN 1474-7464

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Abstract

© 2011 Cambridge University Press. The treatment of housing in the definition of income used to measure poverty makes a big difference to who is counted as poor. Both the Before Housing Costs (BHC) and After Housing Costs (AHC) measures in current use in the UK pose problems. BHC income does not capture the advantages of living in owner-occupied housing and AHC income might not account for the benefits of living in higher-quality accommodation. We explore the potential of including in income the difference between the estimated value of housing consumed and housing costs, which we refer to as net imputed rent. We investigate whether findings about child and pensioner poverty, and judgements about the effectiveness of poverty-reducing policies, are affected by accounting for housing in this way.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Social and Economic Research
Depositing User:	Jim Jamieson
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2013 08:27
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2018 21:15
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7174

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