ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with sales of previously rented accommodation by public landlords, either to sitting purchasers or of vacant houses. The efforts of the incoming administration to stimulate council house sales at the local level quickly bore fruit. To give just a single example, in 1972 the Birmingham Tories were ousted and replaced by a Labour council which immediately terminated all council house sales save where firm commitments had been entered into. The survey results also showed the other side of the coin, that the elderly, the retired, single-parent households, and other households without a wage or with only one wage, were less likely to purchase. The chapter discusses the stock supply of formerly rented accommodation by public landlords. The point has come in this volume where it is appropriate to turn from the demand relationships to those of supply, and in this context supply will be understood as thé willingness and ability of owners to sell dwellings for home-ownership.
