Moving on, Crossing Divides - Report on Policies and Procedures for Tenants Transferring in Local Authorities and Housing Associations (Paperback)

In the spring of 1994, 49 local authorities and 48 housing associations in England were interviewed. The telephone interviews requested information about policies to facilitate tenant transfers. Falling numbers of intra-authority transfers over the previous five years had fuelled a perception that tenant mobility had fallen nationally as waiting list pressures grew. However, analysis of available data revealed that the mobility rate for council tenants has in fact risen not fallen. Yet local contexts differ from the national average, and in some authorities mobility rates have indeed fallen. This report reveals that there was no close statistical relationship between the local authority transfer rate and waiting list pressure; and that local authorities with similar lettings contexts adopted quite different transfer strategies and procedures and these choices impacted on mobility rates.