Nearly A Third of Social Housing Tenants Want To Buy Their Own Home

Around 29 per cent of social housing tenants in the UK are keen to get on to the property ladder, says a new report. The survey of more than 1,000 social housing tenants in the UK shows that on average, tenants live in social housing for 12 years and that two thirds have lived in social housing for more than a decade. Just over half of those tenants aged 18-34 want to buy in the future, compared to just nine per cent of people aged over 55. Read more on the Independent website.