Rent burden
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Two-bedroom median rent as a share of resident median annual earnings.
Explore Private rent versus resident pay →Housing · data story
The same rent is a very different burden depending on where London pay lands.
The rent-pay trap
The evidence
Rent burden
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Two-bedroom median rent as a share of resident median annual earnings.
Explore Private rent versus resident pay →Advertised rent sample
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The geography of the latest ONS purposive private-rent sample.
Explore London's private-rent map →Short-let pressure
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Entire-home advertisements relative to Census households.
Caveat: Listings are advertisements, not occupied nights.
Explore Short lets by borough →Trace the claims
Keep following the evidence
Housing · 3 evidence sets
A target, an approval, a start and a completed home are not interchangeable stages.
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Rent, possession action, temporary accommodation and rough sleeping mark different points in London’s housing emergency.
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