ABSTRACT
This chapter utilizes a set of samples derived from housing needs surveys and examines the behaviour of the Fordham Research definition. This enables comments to be made about the way in which key housing need-related variables behave, and the types of household which emerge from the measure. Fordham Research has applied this approach in about seventy district-wide housing needs surveys. The proportion of households in housing need varies considerably in individual districts, from under 5% to above 20%. The group of surveys have, in aggregate, a representative population structure, a tenure profile which closely matches the national profile; and a wide geographical spread. Mobility is generally higher in the urban areas, but oddly enough, is highest of all in the most rural category. Variations in the level of need between individual areas are poorly correlated with either prices or income taken alone, but they are quite well related to house price and income together.
