Claim: Home ownership is on the rise.
Fact-check: Is home ownership on the up? - Full Fact
Verdict: correct over the last year in england. the proportion of homes owned by the occupier increased by 0.5 percentage points between 2016 and 2017.  this follows year on year falls since 2004.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2018-06-13T00:00:00