{"id":1094,"date":"2014-07-23T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/rent-trap-keeping-englands-young-people-off-the-housing-ladder\/"},"modified":"2016-01-10T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T04:44:47","slug":"rent-trap-keeping-englands-young-people-off-the-housing-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/rent-trap-keeping-englands-young-people-off-the-housing-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"'Rent trap' keeping England's young people off the housing ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTenants pay more for the roof over their heads than buyers, according to the government’s English Housing SurveyYoung people are being caught in a “rent trap”, with housing costs taking up so much of their income that they are struggling to save enough to buy a home of their own, it was claimed on Wednesday, as figures showed tenants are paying more than homebuyers for the roof over their heads.The government’s official English Housing Survey showed that in 2012-13 the 4 million households in England’s private rented sector paid an average of \u00a3163 a week for their homes, an increase of \u00a310 since 2008-9, while the 7.2 million households buying their home through a mortgage paid \u00a3149. Continue reading…
\n
\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…‘Rent trap’ keeping England’s young people off the housing ladder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tenants pay more for the roof over their heads than buyers, according to the government’s...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-hE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4690,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-buyers-need-to-save-for-up-to-24-years-to-get-on-housing-ladder\/","url_meta":{"origin":1094,"position":0},"title":"UK buyers need to save for up to 24 years to get on housing ladder","date":"December 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Resolution Foundation research shows it can now take almost a quarter of a century for UK households to accumulate a big enough depositHomebuyers now have to save for up to 24 years to set aside a deposit large enough to buy them a foot on Britain\u2019s housing ladder, according\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":140272,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loophole-adds-to-shameful-rental-conditions-in-england-says-housing-chief\/","url_meta":{"origin":1094,"position":1},"title":"Loophole adds to \u2018shameful\u2019 rental conditions in England, says housing chief","date":"November 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Exclusive: Peter Wright calls for reform of private rented sector to address \u2018serious systemic failings\u2019A loophole allowing landlords to rent out squalid homes is contributing to \u201cshameful\u201d conditions of the type seen nearly a century ago, the head of England\u2019s environmental health chiefs has said.Peter Wright called for wholesale\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15256,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tenants-in-england-spend-half-their-pay-on-rent\/","url_meta":{"origin":1094,"position":2},"title":"Tenants in England spend half their pay on rent","date":"July 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r London tenants pay 72% of earnings on rent, according to latest figures from the English Housing SurveyRents in England are almost half of tenants\u2019 average take-home pay, according to an official report on the state of the country\u2019s housing.Figures in the latest English Housing Survey, based on research in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5420,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/warning-as-homebuyers-stretch-to-get-on-and-up-the-housing-ladder\/","url_meta":{"origin":1094,"position":3},"title":"Warning as homebuyers stretch to get on and up the housing ladder","date":"February 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The Council of Mortgage Lenders says increase in mortgages of more than 25 years is mostly due to difficulty of keeping up with rising house pricesMore first-time buyers and home movers than ever before took out mortgages for longer than 25 years in 2015, as rising house prices made\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20454,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/prices-keep-singles-off-housing-ladder\/","url_meta":{"origin":1094,"position":4},"title":"Prices keep singles off housing ladder","date":"July 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Percentage of single people among England\u2019s first-time homebuyers has halved in the past 20 years\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...Prices keep singles off housing ladder","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35364,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/building-affordable-homes-for-rent-is-more-vital-than-new-roads\/","url_meta":{"origin":1094,"position":5},"title":"Building affordable homes for rent is more vital than new roads","date":"November 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The chancellor needs to classify housing as an infrastructure project and boost its supply in the autumn statementThe outward manifestation of a housing crisis is right before our eyes, on a street near you, tucked anonymously in a doorway or lying on a park bench. Rough sleeping, according to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}