Article

LGBTQ+ people, asset-based welfare and housing in the UK

Details

Citation

Matthews P, Barnett C, Lambert P, Gregory L & Formby E (2024) LGBTQ+ people, asset-based welfare and housing in the UK. Social Policy and Society.

Abstract
The role of housing in providing a welfare asset in later life has been widely explored. With the growth in home-ownership, house price inflation, and erosion of the welfare state, housing wealth has increasingly become part of the welfare mix in advanced economies. In this paper we present analysis of housing outcomes in terms of tenure and asset value, among people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual in Great Britain. This shows that LGB people have poorer housing outcomes than their heterosexual counterparts: they are less likely to be homeowners; more likely to be private renters; and more likely to be social renters. We conclude by arguing that as openly LGBTQ+ people are on average younger than the rest of the population, and with intergenerational inequalities in access to home ownership are growing, this could lead to LGB people, as a group, being particularly excluded from asset-based welfare in future.

Notes
Output Status: Forthcoming/Available Online

Journal
Social Policy and Society

StatusAccepted
FundersThe Nuffield Foundation
Date accepted by journal16/01/2024
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/35970
ISSN1474-7464
eISSN1475-3073

People (3)

Dr Camilla Barnett

Dr Camilla Barnett

Honorary Research Fellow, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

Professor Paul Lambert

Professor Paul Lambert

Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

Professor Peter Matthews

Professor Peter Matthews

Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

Projects (1)