Half of UK babies are born to families in rented accommodation
For about 200,000 families with children in private rentals, she says"the main risk is eviction, which hangs threateningly in the background of normal family life".
Because of"rising house prices and rising rents, young people are buying their first home later in life. Later, more often than not, than the age at which they have their first child".Across the UK, numbers of renting families with children almost doubled in a decade to 1.8 million, with particularly big regional growths in north-east England, Yorkshire and the Humber and Northern Ireland.
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