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

The given illustration depicts the rate of residences in possessed and rented

settlements

in two countries from 1918 to 2011.

Overall

, even though owned

houses

started the

period

as lowest in 1918, it experienced a steady ascending trend until the end of the

period

while

the ratio of rented accommodation showed a constant decrease though it started as highest at the beginning of the

period

. As can be seen from the depiction, the rate of owned

houses

began the

period

with almost 23% at the bottom

whereas

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rented accommodation was at the top with nearly 80%.

However

, the percentage of the owned

settlements

had a gradual downward tendency ending the

period

with approximately 45% whilst the

proportion

of rented

houses

stably uplifted throughout the

period

, finishing at around 65%. It can be clearly observed that the

proportion

of residences in rented

settlements

declined

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10% between 1918-1930.

Although

the

proportion

remained the same for a decade, it moderately went down until the year 2001. It climbed 10% when the graph reached the end of the

period

in 2011. In the meantime, the

proportion

of households in owned accommodation progressively experienced improvements and overlapped with the percentages of

houses

in rented

settlements

in the year 1971 at 50%. Afterwards, it continued its gradual upward trend by reaching 70% in 2001. It slightly decreased to just around 65%

at the end

of the

period

.