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Howard in reply to @slippers

What's always left unsaid is that we've got more houses and bedrooms per person than we've ever had in aggregate, yet prices still rise uncontrollably.

Do you mean homes rather than houses? Or actually houses, not flats? Bedrooms PP feels reasonable, as folks can't / won't downsize, homes and houses I'm not sure - we were importing around 5k people a week relatively recently, and all of them need to be housed somewhere.

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slippers in reply to @Howard
One more:

https://x.com/ianmulheirn/status/1788105965188849667

Housing item on R4, @amolrajan compared 700k immigration (for 1 yr) to ~230k new housing - but average household size for migrants is around 3. Not an ideal comparison

Also lots of 'housing supply not keeping up' but homes per population is at its at its highest level ever...

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Howard in reply to @slippers

Maybe there is no housing crisis?

causes being more financial than simplistic measures of people-to-dwellings.

Mmm. Stop printing money.

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