ESRI: 2/3rds of people living in houses too big for their needs

Actually a lot of older people quite like living in apartments - no gardening, someone else cleans the gutters, windows, looks after the exterior. But there's very limited options that are good for people like that.
Its the same thing as the effort to cater for tenants after 2010 - any slightest hint from a government and they were immediately accused of trying to turn the population into a nation of people owning nothing.
 
Purple said:
Why?
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The bedroom tax is not a tax, its a reduction in the amount of housing benefit paid to social tenants in the UK who have more rooms than people in their homes. It was actually a rehash of a Brown-era labour policy called "Local Housing Allowance", the idea was that the housing benefit amount paid would be on the basis of family size not the size of the property. It never applied to owner occupiers.
 
Are you sure?

Practically all newly built one-off houses over the last 20 years are at least 150 sqm, more like 200 sqm.

Okay, in estates, there are plenty of 3-bed semis which are sub 150 sqm, yes.

But 95% seems too high.
 
Protocol said:
Are you sure?

Practically all newly built one-off houses over the last 20 years are at least 150 sqm, more like 200 sqm.

Okay, in estates, there are plenty of 3-bed semis which are sub 150 sqm, yes.

But 95% seems too high.
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The overwhelming majority of urban scheme homes are nowhere near 120m2 never mind 95m2. Look at typical 4 bed home sizes in outer Dublin suburbs on myhome or daft. The 150m2 self build MacMansion is very much a rural one off thing.
 
Very good data on this topic here.
 
Protocol said:
Are you sure?

Practically all newly built one-off houses over the last 20 years are at least 150 sqm, more like 200 sqm.

Okay, in estates, there are plenty of 3-bed semis which are sub 150 sqm, yes.

But 95% seems too high.
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That's not my point, I was challenging the claim that families "need" 150m2. As another poster has pointed out, the average home is 112m2. Not 150m2+. And a very large number of people do not live in rural one off homes.
 
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