Today we learned that the population of private renters grew by more than 1 million households between 2011 and 2021.
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One in five of us in England and Wales now rents from a private landlord – a huge increase in ten years, while the proportion of the population that owns their home has fallen.
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All that is stuff we had a pretty good idea about already, but for the first time we know where all those private renters are!