The housing rental crisis

 I found this chart on Mastodon, and unfortunately no source was given, so treat its conclusions with caution.  It looks as if it's from the FT, but I can't be certain.

Across the Anglosphere, there are too few houses, and too few are being built.  This is part of the reason why rents are rising much faster than incomes.  But there is also a rental crisis in Germany, in Belgium  .....   But not in Vienna.

What is the solution?  Increasing the supply of housing is one.   Significantly increasing the supply of social housing (council flats) --- social housing built not to the cheapest and grottiest standards --- is another. 

Spot the housing bubble

This article has a really useful interactive chart showing housing affordability in several countries.

Frankly, houses look horribly expensive in Oz, and dirt cheap in the US (remember that the currency is irrelevant here)

At Th Age's website, you can select which countries to show, and compare them with your own.  Nice work!