Der Wohnungsmarkt ist nichts für Alleinstehende: Die Regierungspolitik ist mit veralteten Erwartungen an unsere Lebensweise verbunden

And it isn’t going to change because most people are still in some form of relationship and they’ll vote for things that benefit them. Just like the old do and they’ll show up more.

Government policy is about protecting wealth.

The fact that you get to keep wealth inside your property that is protected from taxation shows that our policy is built around the idea that landownership should be protected for the wealthy to keep their wealth.

Even articles like this are driving at the I want mine as opposed to how do we make things better.

Single people living on their own, from a society perspective is not a good use of land, is not a good use of resources, but it should be a right. You should be allowed to do that. It should be viable that somebody can do that. But government shouldn’t be pushing for that. It’s a lot of wasted space and a lot of wasted energy. Especially if the government’s also provide viable third spaces for people to congregate which is what we really need is inexpensive or free third spaces. Having roommates and sharing a place doesn’t feel as much a compromise if you have places that you can go and be yourself in the world without having to spend all of your money.

Aren’t rents down? I know housing prices are quite down from the peak. There’s always going to be a lot of inertia on the way down because no one likes losing money, not just investors.