Increasing ownership rates has been the No1 (and at times only) goal of Conservative housing policy in recent years. Its the only objective that has had consistent funding and attention.

Despite that, across their decade in power, it has fallen 2 percentage points https://twitter.com/ToryHomes/status/1349457602174996480

A part of the reason might be that the home owning generation have used low interest rates to buy three properties as a pension and that's put prices out of reach of first time buyers. And we can't save anyway because all our income goes on paying them rent.

But funnily enough thats never part of the policy solution. Instead it's usually some sort of attempt to discount prices that only benefits people who were on the cusp of ownership anyway, and comes at the expense of more genuinely affordable housing.

You can't do a thread like this without also noting that a fair chunk of those who did grind their way into one of these discounted housing schemes are currently being mercilessly bankrupted to pay for fixing fire safety defects they had no idea of when they bought