To feel angry about this?

[PearlWasp]

My local area has just built new mid market rentals (one bedroom flats) the local news have released the criteria for people eligible to apply for them.
The flats will cost £545 per month and the criteria to apply is a connection to the local area and an income of £30,000 - £50,000 per year.

My 20 year old daughter has been looking for the opportunity to rent somewhere for over a year now and we were excited about this opportunity until we found out the criteria. She works in retail and doesn't make anywhere near £30,000 a year. It seems a bit insane to me that mid market will only accept people with such a high income to apply for their flats, but maybe I'm out of touch? Although £40,000 - £50,000 is definitely higher than average people earn in my local area!

Around 3.6 million UK adults aged 20-34 live with their parents: 34% of men in this age group and 22% of women.

The figure for men is thought to be higher primarily because a) they have split up with a partner with whom they lived previously and had children and gone back to parents temporarily while they make other arrangements; and b) men tend to have fewer close friends so women are generally have more options for house sharing with people they know, which is much nicer than doing so with strangers. Men tend to move out with a partner rather than with friends. This data is obviously heavily skewed by those in the age group in their late 20s and early 30s.

Regardless, the overall percentage for 20-34 year olds living with parents is around 28%. Clearly for the younger ones within that wide age range the percentage will be far, far higher the younger they are. For 20 year olds 71% of men live with parents and 51% of women do so.

Those who are 18-24 and have moved out are largely in house shares or living with partners or studying far from home. 57% still live with parents and the percentage of under 25s living alone entirely will be very small indeed: in 2024, only 2% of those aged 16-24 lived alone. For those aged 18-34 less than 10% live alone because it’s not economically viable unless the young adult is in a very high paying role for their age and/ or has family wealth subsidising it. This also isn’t unusual in comparison to other countries similar to ours: in some EU countries over 85% of 20-24 year olds live with their parents.

I’m confused why you or the OP thinks it’s the norm for a 20 year old to be renting a flat on their own as the data doesn’t support this at all. And I say this as someone who lived alone from age 16 onwards because I had to do so. It wasn’t easy at all even then and now it is a pipe dream for most young adults and would leave them living in poverty, so why would they even want to do so?