Anglosphere countries are very bad at housing.
Source: https://cps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/How-Many-Homes-Does-the-UK-Need-.pdf
I don’t want to defend England’s housing building, but the Y axis not starting at 0 is visually misleading. Here’s a very rough correction:
I did exactly this for a different post a few weeks ago. Non zero starting point on the Y axis is one of the most used subtle swindler mechanisms in journalism imo.
I dug it out to upvote it :)
Thank you, very important point! I was trying to find that pic of a graph where the question is something like “Does it matter where the graph starts?” and the lower part says “Yes”, but is cut off and the upper part says “No” :')
Hmm… this is raising so many questions…
I wonder how many homes your typical Frenchman uses up in a year?
And what’s the average of people together in a bed in England?
Yeah, they are generally bought by English retired.
I’m only on my phone and can’t easily check the data behind this, but a very quick and dirty estimate of number of houses built per undeveloped acre between those 2 countries shows a different picture. Balancing land use has to be a factor, not just absolute number of people wanting houses. Is anyone talking about theoretical population models for different countries?
Are they cheap temporary low-dense homes made of Fire’s Favourite Food, or are they high-density and concrete?
One of them stands a better chance of still being a home in 50 years, and I think that cheap structures just to churn people is not a great solution.
err in Europe we use bricks to build houses. A house made out of wood is not a house, it is a shed.
