Generation rent being pushed into poor housing

There has been a lot in the media recently about so-called ‘generation rent’ – and the increasing market-domination of the private rented sector. A study by the Joseph Rowntree foundation found that by 2020 the number of home owners under 30 will fall from 2.4m to 1.3m – which amounts to a drop of 46%. The report also predicts that 400,000 young people will be “excluded completely”; unable to