The average low-to-middle income household putting aside 5 per cent of their disposable income each year would have taken 31 years to save a deposit in 2010, up from just eight years in 1983.

Alongside cuts to social housing, people on a low-to-middle income are finding themselves with little option but to rent privately. Families in particular often find themselves exposed to high rents and insecure tenancies.

To help address this Resolution Foundation is undertaking a project to develop a model to support institutional investment in family friendly, build-to-let accommodation with longer term tenure.

For more information about our work on housing please contact Vidhya Alakeson or Louisa Darian.

Publications

Meeting the housing needs of low-to-middle earners

Making a Rented House a Home: Housing solutions for ‘generation rent’

Submission: memorandum to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on the impact of the changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget

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