Task 1: The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words
The graph chart displays the proportion of families in ownership or rental of housing in the United Kingdom from 1918 to 2011.
Overall
, people
owned more houses
over the time period, and less wanted to lease property
. The other significant feature of this
graph is at certain years the private and public housing was similar in proportion.
People
in 1918 more wanted to rent a property
than to buy it, such
as more than 75% of families were living in rented houses
in Britain and only around 23% of families had their own property
. For almost 14 years the proportion was similar to previous years, and in 1971 half population had their own property
and the rest of them lived in hired houses
.
10% more people
purchased houses
and 10% less people
hired spaces in 1981. After
this
time period, the graph started to increase for owned accommodation and decreased for the rented ones. In 2011, British people
again started to rent a property
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