{"id":85329,"date":"2026-02-21T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85329"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:24:21","slug":"housing-market-failing-families-as-1-5m-now-rent-a-third-of-total-rental-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/21\/housing-market-failing-families-as-1-5m-now-rent-a-third-of-total-rental-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing market failing families as 1.5m now rent &#8211; a third of total rental population"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WMDBb.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=142&amp;y=191&amp;s=52&amp;d=52\" alt=\"Families have been disproportionately forced to rely on private rental homes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Families now make up one third of the rental market as homeownership grows increasingly out of reach, new analysis reveals.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/homeandproperty\/housing-market-failing-families-as-1-5m-now-rent-a-third-of-total-rental-population\/ar-AA1WMNrN?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69995f5c650144c69e74d638f2ab1934&amp;ei=22\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Families now make up one third of the rental market as homeownership grows increasingly out of reach, new analysis reveals.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Parents-struggle.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85345,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85329\/revisions\/85345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}