Article 2T81F Wealth gap rises as home ownership falls, says study

Wealth gap rises as home ownership falls, says study

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Michael Savage
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Resolution Foundation finds that half the nation's wealth belongs to a tenth of adults as property ownership declines

A fall in home ownership is fuelling the return of rising wealth inequality across Britain, it has emerged.

Booming house prices in the run-up to the financial crisis had led to a decade-long fall in the uneven distribution of the country's wealth. However, comprehensive new analysis of the UK's wealth divisions has now found that the trend has gone into reverse.

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