LSE London Seminar in Honour of Alan Holmans
The Wider Role:
Alan’s Contributions to Housing Statistics and Policy
Steve Wilcox, University of York and Peter Williams, University of
Cambridge
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A very quick ‘Cook’s Tour’ of his work on Statistics and Policy
Understates his contributions within and outside of government
Alan was consulted by many and did his ‘figuring’ for many
Always willing and ever helpful
His policy work covered government, Shelter, TCPA, CML,
PPIW and many others
• Interplay statistical and policy work;
- policy insights within primarily statistical works
- policy work utilising original statistical analyses
Statistics
• Alan’s contributions include;
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1977 Housing Policy Green Paper – Technical Volumes
Social Trends
National Dwelling and Housing Survey
Labour Force Survey Housing Trailers
Survey of English Housing/English Housing Survey
Historical Statistics of Housing in Britain
History of Household Projections
Contributions to the UK Housing Review
• Alan’s contributions often drew on more substantial work, but
also included short ‘one off’ analyses;
• 1995/96 • 1996/97 • 1999/00 • 2006/07 -
Household requiring homes &
North – South divide in house prices
Meeting housing needs in the private sector
British housing in the 20th Century
History of rising house prices
• His work was also a constant source of both material and
inspiration to the editor and other Review authors
Policy
• Housing Policy Review for England and Wales; the consultative
document Housing Policy. Alan wrote much of 3 volumes
• Housing Policy in Britain: a History which discussed in
considerable detail the evolution of housing policy from 1945 to
1979 (including the pre-history back to 1844)
• Alan wrote a series of monographs within the government (on
house prices (1990), the employment circumstances of council
tenants (1993), house property and inheritance (1994)
• The much under-referenced and ODPM-funded Evaluation of
English Housing Policy from 1975-2000
• Housing requirements in the TCPA’s 1996 The People – Where
will they go
Policy
• Divorce, Remarriage and Housing (DETR 2000)
• An examination of the housing needs and supply for an ageing
society (RICS, 2009)
• House prices, land prices, the housing market and house
purchase debt in Britain and other countries (DoE, 1991)
• Estimates of Housing Equity Withdrawal by Owner Occupiers in
the United Kingdom 1970-1990 (DoE )
• Estimates of Housing Demand and Need (JRF, Shelter and
TCPA plus Wales and Northern Ireland)
• Home Ownership, House Purchases and Mortgages:
International Comparisons (CML, 2000)
• Housing in London: Future Perspectives (LSE, 2000)
• Policy options to promote affordable housing (CCHPR, 2002)
• Recent trends in numbers of first-time buyers: A review of recent
evidence (CML, 2005)
Other Publications
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Holmans, A (1961) United States Fiscal Policy 1945-59, its contribution to
economic stability, OUP
Holmans, A. (1970) A forecast of effective demand for housing in Great Britain in
the 1970s. Social Trends, volume 1. London: HMSO.
Holmans, A. (1987) Housing Policy in Britain: a History. London: Croom Helm.
Housing Equity Withdrawal (DoE, 1996), Negative Equity (DoE, 1997), Divorce,
Remarriage and Housing for DETR (2000).
Holmans, A. (1991) ‘The 1977 National Housing Policy Review in Retrospect’
Housing Studies, 6(3) pp.206-219.
Holmans, A. (1997) ‘UK housing finance; past changes, the present predicament
and future sustainability’ in Williams, P. ed. Directions in Housing Policy.
London: Paul Chapman.
Halsey, A.H. (1972 and subsequent editions) Trends in British Society since
1900: A Guide to the Changing Social Structure of Britain. London: Macmillan.
Holmans, A. (2005) Housing and Housing Policy in England 1975-2002:
Chronology and Commentary and The Context for Housing Policy Since 1975:
Statistical Time Series
Plus numerous contributions to a wide range of CCHPR reports