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.
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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