Know Your Place - Housing Wealth and Inequality in Great Britain 1980-2003 and Beyond

By: Bethan Thomas
Published: November 2004

Know Your Place - Housing Wealth and Inequality in Great Britain 1980-2003 and Beyond

This report describes the growing inequalities in housing wealth being generated through the operation of housing markets in Great Britain. Current levels of housing wealth inequality are unprecedented and, we argue, almost insurmountable by individuals - whatever efforts they might make to improve their relative situation through, for instance, employment.