ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the stock supply by owner-occupier households or their executors. Stock supply through dissolutions triggered off by the formation of new households also derives from persons of the same sex setting up house together, as in the case of gay couples. The analysis demonstrates that the effective termination of marriage, through the death of one spouse, through divorce and through separation, also plays an important part in the stock supply of owner-occupier households. Almost two-thirds of the total in 1971 came from selling buyers but other substantial categories were constituted by the dissolution of elderly households and the movement of continuing households into rented accommodation. The supply from the dissolution of elderly households reflects the growth in house-ownership itself and the increase in the number of elderly one-person households.
