Poverty After Housing Costs By Housing Tenure

Since 2002/03 the number in poverty in all but owned with mortgage tenure types has decreased. While the proportion of those in poverty after housing costs in the social rented sector fell by 7.5 percentage points between 2002/03 to 2014/15 - the largest fall across all tenure types – the poverty rate in the social rented sector remains higher than any other tenure type. The proportion of those in poverty in the private rented sector is 36%, a decrease of 2.5 percentage points. Among those owning their properties outright, the proportion of those in poverty fell by 5.6 percentage points to 11%, while the figures for those owning a property with a mortgage remained unchanged. Read more on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website.