Two more regions joined London in having unaffordable rents. By contrast, Wales has officially had affordable rents since records began eight years ago.
Rent has remained unaffordable in England, having been so since records began, the latest official figures show. The typical private sector renter, on a typical wage in England, paid a figure deemed to be unaffordable by the Office for National Statistics . Renters on a median income - the midpoint between the highest and lowest - paying to live in a median-priced rented home in England spent more than 34.2% of their income on rent.
On the whole, rents in England have been unaffordable since these records began being published in 2015. Wales, however, has had affordable rent for the eight years covered by the data, with 27.2% of median income spent on median rent. More than a hundred local areas in England and Wales had unaffordable rents, the ONS data showed, the lowest number since such records began in 2015.
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