The issue is that, loosely stated, most people who don't own are spending 30, 40, 50% of their income on rent essentially anywhere. It's not sustainable in any

The issue is that, loosely stated, most people who don't own are spending 30, 40, 50% of their income on rent essentially anywhere. It's not sustainable in any sense of the word. Their entire life is literally treading water. I've posted about this before - on an individual level if you can't save money you need to rethink your entire life, yesterday. Of course, if you've already lost, you already have zero capital, well then you're in a very sticky situation indeed. Any "solution" that involves a huge percentage of the population being actually skint and forced into making a series of incredibly short-term financial decisions is a band aid. This is what an economy designed for the wealthy looks like. The bottom end of malleable labour pool participants is a 'feature', not a bug.