TY - JOUR
T1 - Accounting for housing in poverty analysis
AU - Mullan, Killian
AU - Sutherland, Holly
AU - Zantomio, Francesca
PY - 2011/10/1
Y1 - 2011/10/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-policy-and-society/article/accounting-for-housing-in-poverty-analysis/F0EFB25B05B75EAE04FC17F7FBD1994E
U2 - 10.1017/S1474746411000224
DO - 10.1017/S1474746411000224
M3 - Article
SN - 1475-3073
VL - 10
SP - 471
EP - 482
JO - Social Policy and Society
JF - Social Policy and Society
IS - 4
ER -