Home ownership is shrinking, private renting isn't working – what's next?
- Written by Susan Smith, Honorary Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge
William Barton/ShutterstockNot long after the global financial crisis, soaring house prices through the 2010s turned residential property into the largest capital asset and best long-term investment in the world. In the same period, rates of owner-occupation fell across the UK, US and Australia. Now, for the first time in 50 years, a growing...
