I agree with the sentiment of trying to ease the cost of housing.

But... building shitty little barely houses, just so the cost of bigger property can justify staying high, isn't the way forward. Housing needs to be made affordable to people again, and it needs to do that by property prices coming closer to peoples income. If we get there and people are happy with small cheap housing, then great.

I'm seeing similar with holidays. In the 1990s going on a family holiday somewhere abroad and enjoying it wasn't uncommon. Now we're glamorising staying in a shed, in some farmers field, with no running water. "Off grid, shepherds hut" my arse, we're being conditioned that a shite holiday that we can barely afford is a step up.

I don't want to go back to the waste of before, the masses of international travel and burned cheap fuel. But ... we need to call a spade a spade here. Selling cheap, at high prices is just more ripping people off, and leaving people in emotional austerity is damaging to wellness and social being.