NINO STAFFA Bearing this in mind and the information presented in Table 4, which showed that well aver half of the poor housing in Britain is concentrated in the worst 15% of ED's, examination of the socia! composition of households in the various tenure categories suggests that the inner city « problem » directly affects a relatively small section of society. Compared to the rest of British society, however, the urban poor suffer an extremely high leve! of repressive living conditions. As can be seen from Table 5 (below) the « semi-skilled manual » and « unskilled manual » socio-economie groups, which account for 18.9% and 6.5% of all tenure categories respectively, have a relatively high presence in the privately rented sector. Table 5: Tenure by Socio-Economicc Group: Professional occupations, employers, managers Intermedia te and junior non-manual Skilled manual andown account nonprofessional Semi-skilled manual and persona! service Unskilled manual Others Total Total ('000) England and Wales 1971 (percentages) Rented Rented Rented from Unfur- FurnishOwner- nished occupier Local from ed from Autho- Private ..... -~~ ........ ~ !:.. rity, NT Private Landlord Landlord 26. 9 4.7 9.6 13 22. 9 12. 3 19. O 34 30. 7 40 .1 32. 3 20 12. 2 28. 3 25 .1 14 2.9 12 .1 10 .4 7 4.4 2.6 3.5 12 100. O 100 .o 100. O 100 8,228 4,628 2,246 550 (23) HMSO, op. cit., p. 82. 26 Rented Withlob Business 25 20 25 22 1 6 100 750 All Tenures 18. O 19. 6 33. O ,., 18. 9 6.5 4.1 100 .o 16,434 (23)
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