Home ownership in the UK is overestimated by conventional data, with many more renters than the figures suggest, a think tank has suggested.
The official estimate of a 64% home ownership rate was too high, the Resolution Foundation said, as many people shared or owners had lodgers.
It said official figures concentrated on households, rather than people.
The think tank, which lobbies for low-income families, calculated that 51% of families or individuals own a home.
It is calling for more attention to be paid to the millions of others who rent.
“Our new analysis shows that we should perhaps obsess a little less about homeowners, and think more about how the other half live,” it said.
It added that the number of family units owning their own home had peaked in 2002 and had been falling since.
It defines a family unit as an individual, a couple, or a parent or parents and their children. So one household with five single adults sharing is counted as five family units under the think tan..
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