After decades of neglect, today housing sits at the top of the political agenda. On the
left and on the right, there is a strong sense that today’s young people in particular,
and our country more generally, are being short-changed when it comes to housing.
This is an account that has been confirmed by previous work for the Intergenerational
Commission: we know that millennials today are spending more of their income on
housing than previous generations did at the same age, but critically get less for their
money when it comes to security and quality of life.