tenure

tenure noun[U]

Source: "Contemporary British Society, Third Edition, Completely Revised and Updated" Chapter 13, The State and Politics, Page 417

Original sentence: "The social characteristics most closely associated with voting choice include occupation and class, ethnic group, union membership, housing //tenure//,religion, education adn generation."

Definition: law the legal right to live in a house or use a piece of land for a period of time

E.g When you rent a house here, you don't have security of tenure.

(//Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English,New Edition, published 2003,Pearson Education Limited//)