Heritage and home
Think tank: Resolution Foundation
Author(s): Camron Aref-Adib; Felicia Odamtten
February 6, 2025
This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation investigates ethnic inequalities in housing affordability.
Britain, today, is a more plural country than ever before. The share of the population from a White British background in England and Wales stood at just under 75 per cent in 2021, down from over 87 per cent in 2001.
Tolerance is a core British value that is taught in schools, and recent polling shows that the country has become more accepting over time. In 2020, only 3 per cent of people thought that being White is necessary to be “truly British”, compared with 10 per cent in 2006. But despite positive developments such as these, there is still ample evidence that significant ethnic inequalities persist in the UK today.
In this briefing note, we investigate one such inequality that has been largely under-researched to date: housing affordability.
