Möchten Sie die Geburtenrate im Vereinigten Königreich steigern? Beheben Sie die Immobilienkrise, so die Forschung

Yeah but if we fixed the housing crisis how would boomers get even richer? We have known for decades about the housing crisis yet refuse to do anything about it. We need mass house building right now!

Most issues in this country all stem back to housing and property values.

Property values detmine how much rent or mortgages cost which are the single biggest expense for most people and one of the big expenses of a lot of businesses.

That means that to have the same spending power normal people need to keep getting paid more to afford their homes, and businesses need to increase their prices to afford their premises. Both of which are direct drivers of inflation and mean that everyone has less disposable income.

We’ve been seeing it in action in London for decades.

Who would’ve guessed that having the majority of your wage go into rent and thus having a lack of disposable income would affect birth rates? What’s next? You are telling me that it also affects the hospitality industry, socialising rates, and mental health problems?

No shit lol

I’m 40 and my *entire* adult life has been a fight to obtain adequate shelter. Finally have a small house but would like more space before starting a family. And my wife and I are relatively high earners, probably top 1-2% for our region.

The UK has some of the smallest and worst value for money houses in the entire world. Building more and better houses should have been our number one priority for decades, yet even modest (ie, insufficient) housebuilding targets have repeatedly not been met.

And on top of all that, for some reason the last Conservative government decided to fill up our limited housing stock with millions of unskilled third world imports.