The chart shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011.

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percentage

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of accommodation which were owned and rented by

households

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in England and Wales from 1918 to 2011

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, at the beginning of the period, rented housings were dominant over owned.

However

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, both of them showed an opposite trend and in the end, the

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of owned apartments took over the rented ones. In 1918, the number of

households

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owning accommodations was considerably low than that rented. Till 1971, both, rented and owned

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' percentages demonstrated gradual decrease and increase, respectively and reached sharply 50% in the early 1970s

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, in 1981 the

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of owned accommodations was exactly 60%,

whereas

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rented ones were 20% less. After that, in 2001 the number of

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owning apartments reached its peak with just below 70% and those who rented reached its lowest with about one third. Next decade the

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of people who owned living places came to a halt by almost 65% and who rented above 30%