While for many it is a lifestyle choice, the ongoing squeeze on wages, rising house prices, not to mention difficulty in obtaining sufficient mortgage finance is accentuating this shift in tenure from owner occupation to long term renting.
Pardon stock market investors if they cringe at the downright gloomy business headlines of slowing growth, rising inflation and an ongoing credit squeeze.
Members voiced their unease at next year's planned salary increase – which comes during a time of continued cuts to public spending and the ongoing squeeze on taxpayers' budgets.
In the runup to the autumn statement, we all knew the ongoing squeeze on living standards was leading to a huge shortfall in tax revenues, throwing deficit reduction plans badly off track.
Morrisons is the most vulnerable of the Big Four grocers to anaemic market growth and the ongoing squeeze from the discounters.
Despite the ongoing squeeze on household incomes and economic uncertainty following the Brexit vote, the Toy Retailers Associationn said families had the choice of a wide range of affordable toys which provided fun for family members of all ages.
The TDA said that the ongoing squeeze on NHS budgets meant that "the challenge of maintaining national standards is harder than at any point in recent history", though the sector had performed well in difficult circumstances this winter.
Matt Piner, an analyst at Conlumino, said the rain "undoubtedly played a role in keeping people away from the high streets", but that the ongoing squeeze on household finances was the crux of "anaemic spending" levels that resulted in a more than 5% drop in clothing and footwear sales.
So we will wait to see on that score, but I would be surprised if anyone sought budget reductions from the NHS in the immediate future, given the nature of the ongoing squeeze.
In Oklahoma, an ongoing budget crisis has squeezed the state's Forestry Services Division and driven up the cost of fighting fires.
This is also to be expected, given that trying to squeeze ever better performance out of (relatively) tiny camera sensors has been an ongoing preoccupation of smartphone makers in recent years.
