Except America

America has a long ass tradition

they're not a democracy

lol

neither are we tho

LOL

of course we're not what are you laughing at, it's not the pure definition

it's a mixture

But yeah the stats are interesting, does anyone have the modern stats?

Because I wonder if we've stagnated since the 90s

It peaked and has been stable/slowly falling since the late 90s

https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/articles/economicreview/april2016/26e82ad3.png

more detailed recent stats

In demographic terms, the average age of first buying is going up

As affordability goes down

so the number of people actually fully owning their home is up

but the number of people owning a home fully or with mortgage in total is down

There's a 25 yr lag on full ownership

ye

Yes

is there any reports based on generations?

I can look

There has been

But it's interesting that council is being replaced by housing association

It shows exactly what you'd expect it to be

I think that's a good thing, I think

Thats by design, Kunarian

Councils started offloading property in the late 80s

would be interesting to see something that is like cohort based

@Eccles what was the main political reason to do so

cost saving or?

Cost saving, right-to-buy, not wanting to be responsible for it

Typical government thing - privatise shit and then we can't be blamed when it goes wrong

It's why all the roads are shit

tbh I'm half sure that the issues we're facing can all be traced back to people living longer and the proportion of young people shrinking

are roads privatized in the uk?

no

yes and no

generally no

No, Cabbage, but the maintenance of them is contracted out

Whereas it used to be done in-house