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28/12/2015

Housing

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Housing

Peter White and guests discuss housing, which is back on top of the political agenda.

Consumer affairs programme. Peter White and guests discuss housing, which is back on the top of the political agenda. Price, supply, quality - they are all being hotly debated.

Home ownership has been falling for more than a decade from a peak of 71% of households in 2003 to below 63% today. In London, it is now below 50%. That figure has dropped much more steeply among the 25-34 year-old age group: down by nearly one quarter. For them - and many more on average to low incomes - renting is the only choice - it's all that's left for them 

Guests: Brandon Lewis, Minister of State for Housing and Planning at the Department for Communities and Local Government
Ray Boulger is a mortgage broker with John Charcol 
Michaela Benson is a sociologist who has done a study of multi-generational living and sharing
And we hear from some imaginative people on how they are solving their accommodation problems.


Presented by Peter White
Editor: Chas Watkin.

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