To think housing in this country is fundamentally broken?

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Whether you rent privately, rent socially or own, it feels like the system isn’t really working for anyone.

• Rents are high and insecure
• Buying is out of reach for many
• Social housing is under strain
• Landlords and tenants feel pitted against each other
• Local authorities seem overwhelmed

It often feels like people are arguing with each other instead of addressing the fact that the whole structure is failing.

AIBU to think this goes beyond individual choices and points to a system-wide problem?

oh dear some of the posts on this thread already havent aged well

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgvn4rr03vo?at_link_origin=BBC_Merseyside&utm_sf_cserv_ref=43653096236&at_ptr_name=facebook_page&at_link_type=web_link&at_medium=social&at_format=image&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_campaign_type=owned&utm_sf_post_ref=660848252&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_id=B6E81708-FC34-11F0-AD09-F1D29B6ED144&fbclid=IwY2xjawPnO59leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBRQVBUaEI4QkJPNm15OEYwc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgnTJqXV3yvOaJmlz5QtwMuk4adlZQzY0uZ44JWAykk_FUx4f7nl_rdneEij_aem_IS0X_ounrE4crCLjAsqPhg

This is reversing, a lot of young people are finally waking up to the fact that borrowing 50k for a useless bit of paper isn"t really very smart.

Even with the people we have there are plenty of houses, but voters are swinging towards the less people route for sure.

It’s not properties that are in short supply, it’s genuinely affordable, secure tenancies.

Now we have a new housing secretary, I wonder if she’ll have the bottle to stop council tenants in England having the right to buy their homes? Scotland withdrew it in 2016, Wales a few years later. If they keep selling them, what is the point of more?

If they are buying the home and then living in it what difference does it make?

It means it isn’t available to be passed on for social rent, and that’s where the main housing shortages lie. The families living in temporary accommodation, or cramped private rentals wouldn’t see any benefit from selling more secure, affordable housing.

Passed on when, when they die? If their family inherit and live in it that is one less housing unit needed for them? You are talking about the system that allocates houses, there is no shortage of actual houses, and the reason houses got so expensive has absolutely nothing to do with a "shortage".