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On 07/11/2016 20:06, Bill Wright wrote:
I've just watched John Snow's report from the US. Utter total
one-sided bias against Trump. Staggeringly one-sided. Now
Dispatches are on about the housing shortage. They mention that
it's partly due to the 'massive population increase' but they don't
say why the population has increased.

It's not population increase - in the main the physical shortage is
due to household composition (more smaller households) and empty
properties.

15 million extra isn't a population increase, then?

House prices are another, related, issue.

And why d'ye think house prices might have gone up to the extent they
have?

Trickle down from Russian Oligarchs paying over the odds for mansions in
London.

There will always be those who wish to live in a desirable area. For all
sorts of reasons. Good schools, etc. And given you probably can't just
build more housing in that area, the prices go up. It's called capitalism.

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