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Just to conceptualize this, it's like every 5 bedroom house having 1 unused bedroom, perhaps being used as an office. Of course, most houses don't have 5 bedroo
by toasterlovin 2y ago
Just to conceptualize this, it's like every 5 bedroom house having 1 unused bedroom, perhaps being used as an office. Of course, most houses don't have 5 bedrooms, so in reality this is an extra bedroom for every 2 houses. Again, possibly being well used for another purpose. That doesn't seem like a lot of underutilization to me.
- ivan_gammel 2y agoRooms used for another purpose are not called bedrooms. See yourself: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/housingenglandandwales/census2021 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/...
- nemomarx 2y agoHow does a guest bedroom get counted, out of curiosity?
- ivan_gammel 2y agoGuest bedroom is underutilized space unless you are a hotel or full-time Airbnb. How often people are staying there? A few months a year in total, if children spend the whole summer with grandparents and visit on rare holidays?
- toasterlovin 2y agoIs that a problem? It's a guest bedroom for every two houses. Something approaching the vast majority of all economic output goes toward things which are extraneous when measured against the historical median standard of living. But people like nice things. And a guest bedroom is a nice thing that some people like.
- CalRobert 2y agoThat feels... weird. Would you say a car is underutilized if it's not being driven 24 hours a day?
- IanCal 2y agoThey can be. My house is a four bedroom house. One of those is used as an office. Nothing in the ONS link says otherwise, they just ask "How many bedrooms are available for use only by this household?"
- gravescale 2y agoAlso consider that many 3rd bedrooms in the UK are tiny. Like, "don't fit single bed frames and allow the door to open properly" tiny.