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Evening Standard
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Greg Pitcher

London ‘at heart of housing crisis’ as number of private renters passes 1 million

The number of London households privately renting has passed one million after rising by 25 per cent in a decade, new census data shows.

Centre for London analysis of the latest Office for National Statistics figures found that 1,025,533 households in the capital were leasing from a private landlord in 2021.

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