Renters pay £30 a week for government housing failure
Inflation is one of those annoying things that you just have to accept and deal with – the official target is, after all, 2%. But that gives the government no excuse to allow rents to go up the way they have.
Since 1998-99, when the government started collecting data on housing costs in the Family Resources Survey, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the measure they currently use for inflation, has risen by 38%. In the same period, the median weekly rent (according to the FRS) has gone up by 80%. If rents had just matched inflation, renters would be an average of £30 better off a week.
