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‘This is Mine! This is Private! This is where I belong!’:Access to Home Ownership

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Housing Law and Policy

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‘Even the use of the English language is affected in government statements. “Despite the continuing growth of home ownership, there are still over 8 million rented dwellings.” Owner occupiers have homes, tenants have dwellings. Council tenants have homes when they are being urged to buy them. The use of the emotive word in the one context rather than the other reflects the attitudes of those making the statements.’ Murie et al., 1976, p. 171

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Cowan, D. (1999). ‘This is Mine! This is Private! This is where I belong!’:Access to Home Ownership. In: Housing Law and Policy. Macmillan Law Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14643-7_13

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