Matt Goodwin believes “we’ve got way too many people coming into the country” after it is revealed one in five tenants spend half of their salary in rent.
It has been reported that 11.6 million people privately renting across the UK, this would suggest that roughly 2.3 million tenants are spending over half of their pay before tax on rent. The average renter’s spend comes in at just under a third or 30.6 per cent of their pre-tax pay.
Goodwin said: “We’ve got a housing crisis which nobody in politics is prepared to deal with head-on.”
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