While many of my older chums are renters,we are section of the generation who failed to challenge the toxic assumptions that saw homes become commodities“We consider it has been extremely successful across the country.” “We” referred to the government, “it” to their housing initiatives. I had attended my MP’s surgery, and this was perhaps the pick of a plethora (excess, overabundance) of platitudes.
I had been provoked to see him because I could no longer confine my outrage at the growing inequality to shouting at the telly; an outrage reinforced by its impact on my grandson.
His generation,saddled with student debt, exploited with rent, and zero-houred,minimum-waged, interned, or will simply never be able to save sufficient money for a deposit. Housing,particularly, gives the lie to the “all in it together” mantra and represents the most abhorrent ingredient of inter-generational inequality.
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Source: theguardian.com