Housing

• There are approximately 6m pensioner households (aged 65 or over) in the UK. 4.3m are owner occupiers, 1.3m social renters and 300,000 private renters.
• 33% of older households in England fail the decent homes standard (estimated at 1.8m properties).
• 32% of older people (3.5m) are paying at least 10% of their income on council tax and could be described as experiencing council tax poverty.