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 comparison where relevant.

The bar graph elucidates the proportion of houses owning and renting

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in both Wales and England from 1918 to 2011.

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, it can be seen that

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the

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of

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renting their

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went down, the

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owning theirs went up over the course of

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93-year period. Before the year 1971, there was more renting than that of owning. After that, the reverse was true. In more detail, privately rented housing was the highest amount of all years in 1918 (about 77%), closely followed by self-owned

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in 2001 (just under 70%). Between the years 1939 and 1961, the

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of rented

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exhibited a downward trend for almost a decade from 68% to 59% as opposed to owning where it was reversed from around 32% to just above 40 percent. In terms of 1971, the convergence of growth rates was seen among both owner-occupied dwellings and tenant-occupied accommodations,

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the proportion of owning dramatically surpassed the renting properties. In comparison,

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had remained steady between 60% and 70% by 2011 as well and the

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of

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in rented

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remained at half of owned

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, at nearly 40 per cent.