<title>Abstract</title> The extent to which models of subsidised homeownership fulfil the purchasers’ ambitions for homeownership is poorly understood in relation to the UK, where the shared ownership - part rent/part buy -- model dominates. Homeownership remains highly aspirational and central to much...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents in Brief -- Contents -- General Introduction / Ford, Janet / Reifner, Udo -- European Declaration for Social Consumer Rights -- Volume I: Social Banking and New Poverty -- Part I: Economic Development and Private Indebtedness -- Chapter 1. Social Banking and...

This paper uses both survey and qualitative panel data collected from five different case-study areas in England in order to offer a conceptualisation of the contemporary role that housing is playing in the transition to adult life. The data suggest that the types of housing pathway that young...

This paper considers the implications of a number of recent labour market changes for the maintenance of owner occupation. The prevalent emphasis upon the impact of unemployment on owner occupiers is discussed in relation to mortgage arrears and possessions, and contrasted with the limited...

This paper examines the relationship between patterns of self-employment and patterns of home ownership in England in the 1990s. It does this via a secondary analysis of the Survey of English Housing. It argues that for many of the self-employed both the housing boom and the economic boom of the...

The research data reported in this article were collected as part of a programme of research into management strategies in relation to the demand for labour. The research project, funded by the Employment Services Division of the Manpower Services Commission, was designed to investigate the ways...

A substantial proportion of people “in debt” are in employment. Increasingly, employers can be required by the courts to recover debts for creditors from employees via the attachment of earnings process. However, there are claims that the process has a range of negative consequences for both...