ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the issue of owner-occupier rehabilitation, from the point of view of the effective demand for the category of housing production as well as the supply of such output. Consideration of the constraints imposed by low household incomes on the effective demand for rehabilitation naturally leads to the topic of government grant's for a such work. The were boom years for owner-occupier rehabilitation and the collapse in approved grants from 186,000 in 1973 to 71,000 in 1975 certainly coincides with the withdrawal in June 1974 of this temporary additional subsidy. The result has been that the process of housing production has become the neglected child of our research institutions. Returning to the discussion of agency agreements, the best-known success story is that of a Newport District Council where bipartisan political support has long existed for a owner-occupier rehabilitation.
