This paper uses data from Annual Housing Surveys to investigate the relationship between growth in family size and the move from rented to owner occupied housing in the mid and late 1970s. A series of studies conducted in the 1950s and 1960s established that growth in the size of the family...

This paper uses data from four successive Annual Housing Surveys, 1974 to 1977, to assess the degree to which households moving from rented to owner occupied housing responded to housing price inflation by purchasing smaller, more delapidated units in less choice locations. The data indicate...