For people on the lowest incomes, social housing rent has
taken up and increasing amount of earnings over the last decade. The cost of
social housing (by private registered providers ) varied greatly across the
country, with the highest prices- typically in London- at nearly double that of
the lowest prices. The affordability of social housing in England has decreased
between 2002 and 2014. On average, rent was equivalent to a larger percentage
of weekly wages in 2014 than in 2002. Without taking into account benefits received, those on
the lowest 10% of earnings spent the equivalent of nearly 56% of their weekly
pay on social rent in 2002. By 2014, this had risen to 73% of weekly pay. In
158 out of the 348 local authorities across England and Wales in 2014, the
lowest 10% of earners could expect to spend at least 75% of their wages on
social housing rent. Read more on the ONS website.
Trevor Hendy obituary
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My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development
at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which,
among o...
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