‘She requested 85p on Splitwise’: The reality of wealth-gap flatshares
New research shows that wealth gaps are causing issues for 43 per cent of renters in shared accommodation

When 29-year-old Polly* moved into a houseshare during her master’s at Durham University, it quickly became apparent that one of her housemates was far wealthier than the rest of them. “They had a completely different relationship to money and material things,” she explains.
Soon enough, the wealth discrepancy began to cause problems. “We would bring up issues like them inflating our bills with crazy heating use in the winter, or carelessly damaginghellip;
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