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The decline of the private rented sector has been one of the most consistent features of the twentieth century - Explain the trend and discuss the prospects for attempts to resurrect this sector.
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The decline of the private rented sector has been one of the most consistent features of the twentieth century. Explain the trend and discuss the prospects for attempts to resurrect this sector. One of the most obvious changes in British housing in the twentieth century has been the decline of the private rented sector. Before the First World War private landlords controlled the majority of rented accommodation in both Scotland and Britain. From 1914 to the present day both their physical stock and their share of the rental market have been in continual decline. This has been particularly sharp since 1945. The decline has been attributed to rent controls, the increase in better investment opportunities elsewhere and the growth of owner occupation and council renting. In recent times there have been a number of attempts to resurrect this sector. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the housing stock was...
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