946 comments! Here is mine. The Boomers, the generation born 1945 - 1965, benefited from affordable housing, and when it grew up, set about making housing an

946 comments! Here is mine. The Boomers, the generation born 1945 - 1965, benefited from affordable housing, and when it grew up, set about making housing an investment. 'Affordable ' and 'investment' are mutually exclusive. That is why supply is not keeping up with demand, and why there are so many unoccupied houses.