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Study on LGB housing inequality highlights how policies are still ‘designed around heterosexual nuclear family’
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LESBIAN, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities are experiencing housing disparities and inequalities, a study has found.

Analysing a decade of data from around 10,000 households, the University of Stirling found that LGB people are less likely to own their own homes, more likely to rent in the private rented sector, and more likely to be social renters.

It found that 20 per cent of lesbian women, 26 per cent of bisexual women, 17 per cent of gay men and 15 per cent of bisexual men were in socially rented accommodation.

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