Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England.

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Notice that drop between 2010 and 2020. Fucking Tories.

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Given this is total house building. So basically how willing or able private construction companies are to build.

    I’d be interested to know exactly what the Tories did to discourage private building.

    Personally I’d rather blame the development companies who have been openly accused of limiting building numbers. To increase profits value of properties they do build.

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    • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hmm… Why would the party of private interests and profit result in a downturn in building and higher profits for private interests?

      That’s a tough one.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What are house prices in France like?

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  • Denjin@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Median house price in France is €160,000 and in the UK it’s £297,000 ~ €350,000

    Median salary in France is €23,280 and in the UK it’s £37,400 ~ €43,000

    A house in France costs, on average, 6.87 times the average annual salary and in the UK it costs 8.14 times.

    Caveat: all these numbers come from 2 minutes of googling figures so I do not vouch for their accuracy.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    old and “full of character” (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.

    compare that with Germany’s rule where a landlord has to replace the floors/kitchen/damn roof every 6/7 years, under the pretext of forced maintenance which they then use to jack up the rent based on the mandatory improvements.

    I genuinely don’t know which is better

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    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You might have mis-read my comment, what are their prices like, relative to ours?

      old and “full of character” (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.

      Basically a bit like our old terrace houses that are full of damp and way too small for modern life.

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