Social housing provides lower-income families with a home at cheaper rents, and with more stability than the private-rented sector. However the sale of social homes, and lower rates of building, mean that this tenure has been in decline since the early 1980s. The data in this section explores rates of social renting over time, and for family units headed by people in different age groups and cohorts.
Social renting
Notes
A family is a single adult or couple, and any dependent children. 18 year olds that live with parents and are not full-time students are not counted as separate family units and do not appear in these statistics. These people are likely to be in education at sixth form or college, and so are still ‘dependent children’.
Source
RF analysis of IFS, Households Below Average Income (1961-83); ONS, Annual Labour Force Survey (1984-91); ONS, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (1992-latest)
Notes
A family is a single adult or couple, and any dependent children. 18 year olds that live with parents and are not full-time students are not counted as separate family units and do not appear in these statistics. These people are likely to be in education at sixth form or college, and so are still ‘dependent children’.
Source
RF analysis of ONS, Annual Labour Force Survey (1984-91); ONS, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (1992-latest)
Notes
A family is a single adult or couple, and any dependent children. 18 year olds that live with parents and are not full-time students are not counted as separate family units and do not appear in these statistics. These people are likely to be in education at sixth form or college, and so are still ‘dependent children’.
Source
RF analysis of IFS, Households Below Average Income (1961-83); ONS, Annual Labour Force Survey (1984-91); ONS, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (1992-latest)
Notes
A family is a single adult or couple, and any dependent children. 18 year olds that live with parents and are not full-time students are not counted as separate family units and do not appear in these statistics. These people are likely to be in education at sixth form or college, and so are still ‘dependent children’.
Source
RF analysis of ONS, Annual Labour Force Survey (1984-91); ONS, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (1992-latest)
