{"id":3586,"date":"2019-12-05T17:39:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factcheckni.org\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2022-02-26T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T17:17:19","slug":"do-over-95-of-south-belfast-residents-own-their-own-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factcheckni.org\/topics\/economy\/do-over-95-of-south-belfast-residents-own-their-own-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Do over 95% of south Belfast residents own their own home?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This claim is inaccurate. The 2011 Census shows that the Belfast South constituency recorded 56.1% of homes being owned outright or owned with a mortgage or loan.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n On 4 December 2019, Emma Little-Pengelly, a DUP candidate in the General Election for the constituency of Belfast South, stated in a <\/span>tweet<\/span><\/a> that \u201cover 95%\u201d of people who live in South Belfast own their own home:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Context<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n Little-Pengelly has <\/span>republished<\/span><\/a> an earlier, deleted tweet in this thread, where she states that South Belfast is not a Corbyn Labour constituency and that if candidate Claire Hanna (SDLP) was elected and voted \u201cCorbyn into 10 Downing Street\u201d, i.e. Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister, then that would be \u201cdevastating to homeowners, entrepreneurs and our economy\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n In response to a tweet challenging that the MP was assuming that south Belfast residents \u201call own their own homes\u201d, Little-Pengelly quickly replied and made that claim that \u201c95% do [own their own home]\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Housing in south Belfast <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2011 Census captured information about respondents\u2019 housing tenure and allows it to be broken down by Westminster constituency. Figures for the Belfast South constituency recorded 56.1% of homes being owned outright or owned with a mortgage or loan. This was lower than the average ownership for Northern Ireland (66.9%) and the United Kingdom (63.5%):<\/span>
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