Bring back good, respectable council housing like they did after WW2. There was absolutely no stigma attached to council housing thirty years ago and it was not in the least unusual for professionals like teachers, doctors, police etc to live on decent estates.

Governments find endless cash to support the behest of capitalists and for political vanity projects like wars and Olympics, yet supposedly can’t find money from the collective public purse to house the next generation?

Gone are the days when a person can get a job and work at the same company all their lives (let alone for 5 years at a time). Young people in particular are living in a world where working at a single company for an extended duration of time is almost mythical at this point. It’s something they heard happened to people in the last century. So it really doesn’t make sense to decrease one’s mobility by being chained to a piece of land (or enclosed space if it is a condo).

I’m married and secure as far as housing is concerned, but I can see big problems looming for the the younger generation. Trouble is, property is now built entirely for profit and housing people is the by-product. A subtle and insidious reversal of priorities within that equation has developed over the last two decades.

Governments will never invest in true affordable housing (despite claiming and promising to) because the accompanying effect of a housing surplus is a drop in prices. Existing owners and investors won’t like that and any government is terrified of the effect this will have on their future electability.