expensive rents and unaffordable house prices.

Fix this, and I bet a lot of the other issues will improve considerably.

5% up from 1%.

The confidence intervals on these percentages are, unsurprisingly, pretty broad, so describing this as a five-fold increase is dodgy. You can see more on p11 of the full report where the earlier figure could have been as much as 1.6% and the later figure as little as 3.5%, which would be a little over a two-fold increase. That increase is what we can be confident of.

The trend is not in doubt and is concerning, but let's not reproduce shitty statistics.