The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph provides information about how many

households

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owning

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owned

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and

renting

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rented

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accommodation in England and Wales

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between

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1918 and 2011.

Overall

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,

households

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who owned

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settlement

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settlements

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increased over the period,

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the

one

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renting

settlement

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continued to decrease. Looking first at the data from

households

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owning accommodation, the number of people who preferred owning a house rose significantly from around 20% at the beginning of the period to above 30% in 1939 and remained at that figure by the end of 1953. For that year, house ownership continued to grow and peaked at nearly 70% in 2001, before it dropped slightly to around 65% in the final decade. Regarding the data from

households

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who prefer renting, there were around 85% of people

renting

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a house at the start of the course. The number began to drop

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around 70% and remained stable between 1939 and 1953. Renting

settlement

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declined dramatically and reach

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the same figure (exactly 50%)

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as

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owning

settlement

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in 1971. The number of renting accommodations continued to decrease unit it fell to a low point at around 30% in 2001 and rise slowly to about 36% by the end of the course.