Sentence examples for private renter from inspiring English sources

According to the government's latest English Housing Survey (pdf), published in February 2014, the average length of time a private renter had lived at their current address was 3.8 years (for social renters it was 11.3 years, and for owner-occupiers, 17.3 years).

Why should a private renter not be given £100,000 to buy a home?

Berry, herself a private renter, would also argue for the mayor to have rent control powers.

The typical private renter is able to save around £2,100 a year, it found, while the average first-time buyer deposit is nearly £31,000.

Typically a private renter will spend about 31% of their income on housing costs compared to 15% for homeowners and 19% for social renters.

It reads: "The average private renter spends 40% of their income on rent – the average mortgage holder spends 20% on repayments – and most tenancy agreements last six or 12 months.

Only 8% of social renters are unemployed, similar to the number found in private renting (6%).

But private renting is extortionate".

Homelessness is rising; private rents have soared.

The growth in private renting is not confined to England.

We need to control spiralling private rents, too.