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The changing housing circumstances of young people in Britain.

It is no secret that, since house prices started booming in the 1980s, young people in Britain have a raw deal when it comes to buying a home. There has been a marked decline in home ownership rates since the generation born in the 1950s (older baby boomers), with more recent cohorts seeing significantly lower levels of home ownership at the same ages than those born earlier.

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