A change in the way people own property?

Herzlos

Why wouldn't there be an unlimited demand for affordable housing?

GreatApe

Herzlos wrote: »

Why wouldn't there be an unlimited demand for affordable housing?

Please use the correct words to describe what you mean.
Why wouldn't there be unlimited demand for social housing

Well because people want to own their own homes and be free they don't want the state to control everything for them. If the state over builds social homes it makes people dependant and it limits the percentage of the stock that can be owner occupied.

It also creates local problems when you concentrate all the poor in one area. For instance hackney grossly over built social homes the result was it pulled in the poor from much further and wider than hackney residents. It made the area a ghetto for decades. It still is a ghetto but since a lot of the residents are now older or retired its a less crime ridden ghetto than it was 20 years ago.

Herzlos

No I deliberately used the word affordable. Most people presumably don't care who owns the property they are renting, and prioritize the following 2 criteria: affordability and stability.
What's wrong with 50% of the market being social housing? You claim to have grown up in social housing, so why the objection to it?

Abby_W

What I notice is that youngsters want to live the minimalistic lifestyle in the center of large cities, so that they can enjoy everything the city has to offer. And when they get settled they will move to the borders of that same city for some extra space.