Caribbean tenants in council housing: ‘Race’, class and gender

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Caribbean households show a very high concentration in council housing and a lower than average degree of owner occupation. This article uses special tabulations from the General Household Survey to isolate the effect of socio‐economic class on housing tenures of Caribbean heads of household. It demonstrates, through a technique of standardisation, that socio‐economic class explains a great deal of the pattern of male heads of household but relatively little of the tenure of female heads of household. It is because of the high proportion of female heads of household in the Caribbean community that the overall degree of council housing is so high. Family structure is a much more potent explanation of Caribbean female tenure patterns and of housing type.

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