Social housing and Right-to-Buy sales Data Request

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Dear Exeter City Council,

My name is Suraj Rajesh, and I am a second-year economics student at the University of Warwick.
 
I am a research assistant for a research project conducted by Professor Ludovica Gazze and Professor Thiemo Fetzer at the University of Warwick. As part of the project, I am studying the evolution of the Council's social housing stock.
 
I found the available data on aggregate social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales at the local authority level. However, more detailed information would greatly assist in answering my research question. Therefore, I hereby submit a Freedom of Information request. I would like access to more detailed data, i.e. at a finer geographical level, on social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the period 1980-2021.
 
Ideally, the data would follow the following format:
Variable of interests: Properties sold under Right-to-Buy and Social/Council housing stock
Geographical unit: As granular as possible (e.g. full postcode or full address)
Time unit: As granular as possible (e.g. Date)
Period covered: As large as possible between 1980 and the present time.
Area Covered: As large as possible (e.g. all properties managed by the Council at any point in time)
Additional information, if possible: discount applied, property valuation, actual sale price, number of bedrooms, or other characteristics.
File format: .xlsx (Excel) or .csv
 
For indicative purposes, the following data format is expected:
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bmchrwqb5wt9l...
 
Thank you for your time in considering my request.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Suraj Rajesh,
Economics student at the University of Warwick

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Room 120

County Hall

Topsham Road

Exeter

EX2 4QD

Telephone: 01392 383000 - ask for information governance

Email: [1][email address]

 

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Exeter City Council

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Exeter     EX1 1JN

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under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information
Regulations 2004 as appropriate. 

 

Please find attached the information you have requested.  Please note, pre
August 2020, the Council only holds a list of properties sold and not the
additional information requested.

                                                                                                                                        

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From: Suraj Rajesh <[3][FOI #942846 email]>
Sent: 27 January 2023 10:53
To: Freedom Of Information <[4][Exeter City Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Social housing and Right-to-Buy
sales Data Request

 

Dear Exeter City Council,

My name is Suraj Rajesh, and I am a second-year economics student at the
University of Warwick.
 
I am a research assistant for a research project conducted by Professor
Ludovica Gazze and Professor Thiemo Fetzer at the University of Warwick.
As part of the project, I am studying the evolution of the Council's
social housing stock.
 
I found the available data on aggregate social housing stock and
Right-to-Buy sales at the local authority level. However, more detailed
information would greatly assist in answering my research question.
Therefore, I hereby submit a Freedom of Information request. I would like
access to more detailed data, i.e. at a finer geographical level, on
social housing stock and Right-to-Buy sales in the Council area for the
period 1980-2021.
 
Ideally, the data would follow the following format:
Variable of interests: Properties sold under Right-to-Buy and
Social/Council housing stock
Geographical unit: As granular as possible (e.g. full postcode or full
address)
Time unit: As granular as possible (e.g. Date)
Period covered: As large as possible between 1980 and the present time.
Area Covered: As large as possible (e.g. all properties managed by the
Council at any point in time)
Additional information, if possible: discount applied, property valuation,
actual sale price, number of bedrooms, or other characteristics.
File format: .xlsx (Excel) or .csv
 
For indicative purposes, the following data format is expected:
 
[5]https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bmchrwqb5wt9l...
 
Thank you for your time in considering my request.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Suraj Rajesh,
Economics student at the University of Warwick

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