Two cities show the problems faced by Britain’s renters

Estate agents rental boards advertising properties 'to let' and 'let by' outside a row of Victorian terraced houses in Lavender Hill, in South London.

2024-04-04    

A century ago almost eight in ten Britons lived in a rented home. Over the next eight decades families of all types got onto the housing ladder, helped at first by a housebuilding boom and later by falling interest rates. Social housing declined from the 1970s. By the turn of the millennium, 70% of people lived in their own home. Renting had become, for most, a waiting room on the journey to ownership.

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