2w ago

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

Anglosphere countries are very bad at housing.

Source: https://cps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/How-Many-Homes-Does-the-UK-Need-.pdf

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Notice that drop between 2010 and 2020. Fucking Tories.
- 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.
  
  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.
What are house prices in France like?
- 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. This also doesn't take into account the rental market or the availability of social housing just owner-occupier purchase price.
- old and "full of character" (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.
  compare that with Germany 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
  
  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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