Mieter in England, die „unerschwinglich“ ausgeben, 36% des Einkommens für die Miete zeigt Umfrage
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/aug/18/tenants-in-england-spending-unaffordable-36-of-income-on-rent-shows-survey
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
Mieter in England, die „unerschwinglich“ ausgeben, 36% des Einkommens für die Miete zeigt Umfrage
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/aug/18/tenants-in-england-spending-unaffordable-36-of-income-on-rent-shows-survey
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
19 Kommentare
When wages rise rents go up. If goods get cheaper rent goes up. If taxes are cut rents go up. When businesses‘ profits go up their rent goes up. Our economy is set up to benefit landowners while those who don’t own land are screwed at every turn.
Wages are kept low and prices are kept high because any improvement in the economy is immediately appropriated by the landowning class. Only ten percent of bank lending is in productive assets, most of the rest is in land.
We need a land value tax to redress the balance of power between landowners and the rest of the country. No-one created the land yet over half of the county is owned by less than 1% of the population. The value of land is created by the entire national community and the rent extracted should belong to the public, not the oligarchs, aristocrats and banks
Crazy suggestion of the day …. Bulid more homes more specifically studios and one beds
Is that it? Make it 75% so the rich can actually feel the benefit of that wealth. The poor have too much already.
A third of your income on rent seems like a sensible amount.
That’s the ratio I was always taught was reasonable.
Only 36%? This is either wildly inaccurate, or it’s combining both partners incomes compared to the cost of renting. An individual would be spending 50-70% of their income on rent alone.
Amateurs, in Poland it’s one full income for rent, even more sometimes
Only 36%? My ‚affordable housing‘ rent is close to 50% of my income. It’s disgraceful
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s considered relatively affordable and is nowhere near as bad as it can, or will get.
> The percentage of income spent on rent varies significantly by country and even within regions of a country. Generally, a rent-to-income ratio between 25% and 40% is considered relatively affordable
If you want to look at actual unaffordable rents then look at somewhere like HK where it’s 65% of income. Hell look at London in isolation and you’re likely going to break that 40%.
36% hahahah if only!!!
I was spending 85% of my income on rent less than 5 years ago.
A third wow this is very reasonable if that was true, if I was not married mine would be way more then just a third.
Yeah 36% seems low.
This article likes lumps together the shambolic DIY studios and quite frankly uninhabitable mouldy HMOs with what should be a reasonable standard of living for the prices we are expected to pay.
Take out the former and I’d put this figure closer to 45-55% of net pay.
This article gets hauled out every few months.
You can pretty much stop reading the article when it suggests residents of Kensington and Chelsea spend 73.4% of their gross median income on rent.
Most people don’t work in the same borough they live in so comparing earning and rents like that is meaningless.
In places like London most properties are have couples or friends so that cost is split and most single people live in shared houses or HMOs. There are so very high earning individuals who are earning enough to have their own place.
For context, what % of income was spent on rent over the past 30 years?
I earn just under £36k, and I spend 26% of my monthly income on rent. Plus another £140 on council tax, which boots it to 33%. This doesn’t include electricity, that’d be probably another £200/month depending on the time of year. Which goes up to almost 42%.
So just to keep a roof over my head, water running, pay taxes to the council, and keep the lights on, that’s almost half of my pay a month. Then we have food, bills, internet, etc.
And £36k is a good amount of money to make! I’m not complaining about that. But the cost of everything else.
I couldn’t survive if I was still at the same job I was at less than 5 years ago, when I was under £20k.
The economy is never going to grow whilst so much money is pouring into boring bricks and mortar
People still living with parents spending 36% of income on new lease cars rather than move out….
As a teenager back in the 80s.
Flat hunting was a breeze. You just looked through the local newspaper or at the local newsagents window for accommodation. Ring the number, go see the flat, pay the deposit, sign some sort of contract (sometimes there wasn’t one) and move in.
Times have changed.
Build smaller houses, smaller single units for single people, 1 and 2 bedroom flats.
More people are choosing to remain single and live alone, and want to buy alone, and those who have relationships choose to live in separate homes.
Feminism has contributed to single lone lifestyles, as it’s empowering to attempt to have it all on your own terms, and have your own space to yourself, relationships where you live together creates coercive behaviour.
I’m looking at renting flats at the moment. 36% pre-tax income is spot on what I’m looking at really, but after tax it’s closer to 55-60% without considering bills, council tax, etc. It’s a miserable situation.