The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the most deprived households spent three-and-a-half times more of their budgets on housing costs than the richest when rent and mortgage interest payments are included.
Without including housing costs it is not possible to understand income poverty or inequality, the IFS said.
When the costs were incorporated, 45% of the poorest tenth of population were found to be materially deprived.
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