Sacred cows, rational debates and the politics of the right to buy after devolution

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robina Goodlad ◽  
Rowland Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.J. Williams ◽  
J. Sewel ◽  
F. Twine

ABSTRACTIt has been argued that council house sales will contribute towards a more general process of residualization of public sector housing. Empirical evidence is presented in this context derived from surveys of purchasers and non-purchasers of council dwellings in the city of Aberdeen. This evidence confirms that purchasers and non-purchasers exhibit different socio-economic characteristics and after only four years of the Right to Buy legislation significant numbers of households in social classes I, II and III have left the public sector via the mechanism of sales. The small number of sales relative to the stock as a whole, however, has meant that the overall contribution of sales towards residualization has been small. This evidence from Aberdeen is compared to evidence from elsewhere and related to the varying pattern of sales across the country as a whole.


Author(s):  
Emily Gray ◽  
Phil Mike Jones ◽  
Stephen Farrall

One of the first steps Margaret Thatcher’s government took following their election in 1979 was to introduce legislation that enabled sitting council tenants to buy their council homes. This chapter assesses the legacy of this policy on the experiences of homelessness and contact with the criminal justice system of two cohorts of UK citizens. Using longitudinal studies of people born in 1958 and 1970, the authors explore how policies intended to turn council tenants into property owners, may have also increased the risks of homelessness, and contact with the criminal justice system for others as well as subsequent generations. The authors assess how legislative changes can shape the lives of citizens, and highlight some of the unintended consequences of the ‘right to buy’ policy. Our chapter, therefore is essentially about the investigation of the outcomes of radical system deregulation. Our chapter draws upon concepts derived from life-course studies and historical institutionalist thinking in order to understand in-depth how radical policy changes may shape and alter the lives of ordinary citizens.


2019 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Susan Marks

This chapter continues the discussion of early English social criticism with a consideration of two uprisings of the early modern period: Kett’s Rebellion (1549) and the Midland Rising (1607). These uprisings were formidable instances of organised resistance to enclosure and related changes, and the texts which have come down to us concerning them connect that resistance to a belief in the original equality of all human beings, the common humanity of rich and poor, and the fundamental right of everyone to live (including the right to buy essential provisions at a fair and affordable price).


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1271
Author(s):  
Marianito R. Rodrigo

A barrier option is an exotic path-dependent option contract where the right to buy or sell is activated or extinguished when the underlying asset reaches a certain barrier price during the lifetime of the contract. In this article we use a Mellin transform approach to derive exact pricing formulas for barrier options with general payoffs and exponential barriers on underlying assets that have jump-diffusion dynamics. With the same approach we also price barrier options on underlying futures contracts.


1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Munro ◽  
A Littlewood

In this paper evidence from the 1991 Scottish House Condition Survey is used to analyse the extent to which, after over fifteen years of continuing sales under the right to buy, there still remains further scope for sales under this policy. The authors confirm that there are continuing cohorts of people who express a desire to buy in the near future. Multivariate analysis indicates that the motivation to buy is chiefly created by the households' economic circumstances, but family characteristics, the type and perceived quality of the house, and rent levels also exert an independent influence. Analysis also suggests that the responses to the relatively hypothetical questions about future intentions appear to be consistent both with aggregate outturns and with the expected characteristics of possible purchasers.


JURISDICTIE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Dewi Wulan Fasya

This article seeks to examine the concept of buying and selling the right to buy back the book review law and civil law bai 'al-Wafa, according to the Shafi'i fiqh. In addition, this article also aims to determine the ratio of the purchase with repurchase review the statute books of civil law and bai al-Wafa, according to the Shafi'i fiqh. Based on the discussion of this article indicates that the purchase is a period of time agreed to recall goods that have been sold and the sale can not be more than five years. While bai 'al-Wafa, according to the Shafi'i fiqh of buying and selling that took sides coupled with the condition that the sale could be bought back by the seller, when the time limit has been determined arrive, while the goods sold are free to be used by the buyer. In sale and purchase of the right to buy back also set about replacement care costs of goods and so forth, while bai 'alWafa there is no mention of the replacement cost of care, which is paid only the cost of the initial purchase, the last of the law of sale and purchase with a repurchase in KUHPerdata much contested in the Supreme court decision which MA. No. 1729 K / Pdt / 2004, which stated that the purchase of the right to buy back is not allowed, while bai 'al-Wafa laws in Shafi'i fiqh books Raghibin Kanz al-Minhaj Fi Sharh al-Thalibin a transaction is fasid. <br />Artikel ini bertujuan mengetahui konsep jual beli dengan hak membeli kembali tinjauan kitab undang-undang hukum perdata dan bai` al-wafâ menurut fikih Syafi’i. Selain itu, artikel ini juga bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbandingan dari jual beli dengan hak membeli kembali tinjauan kitab undang-undang hukum perdata dan bai` al-wafâ menurut fikih Syafi’i. Berdasarkan uraian pembahasan artikel ini menunjukkan bahwa dalam jual beli ini ada suatu jangka waktu tertentu yang diperjanjikan untuk menebus kembali barang yang telah dijual dan jangka waktu jual beli ini tidak boleh lebih dari lima tahun. Sedangkan bai’ al-wafâ menurut fikih Syafi’i yaitu jual beli yang dilangsungkan dua pihak yang dibarengi dengan syarat bahwa yang dijual itu dapat dibeli kembali oleh penjual, apabila tenggang waktu yang telah ditentukan tiba, sedangkan barang yang dijual tersebut bebas dipergunakan oleh pembeli. Dalam jual beli dengan hak membeli kembali juga mengatur tentang penggantian biaya perawatan barang dan lain sebagainya, sedangkan bai’ al-wafâ tidak ada menyinggung tentang penggantian biaya perawatan, yang dibayarkan hanya harga awal pembelian, terakhir mengenai hukum dari jual beli dengan hak membeli kembali dalam KUHPerdata banyak dipertentangkan dalam putusan Mahkamah Agung diantaranya Putusan MA. No. 1729 K/Pdt/2004 yang menyatakan bahwa jual beli dengan hak membeli kembali tidak diperbolehkan, sedangkan bai’ al-wafâ hukumnya dalam fikih Syafi’i kitab Kanz al-Râghibin Fi Syarh Minhaj al-Thâlibin merupakan jual beli yang fasid


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