flicketyBI have started reading the report, and so far, I see nothing that makes our generation different from previous ones! I remember walking along with my baby, 36 years ago, looking at big houses, thinking the world is built up side down, here we are with a baby in a tiny one bedroom flat, and all the big houses are owned by older people with no kids. It has always been so, it didn't make me jalous or envious, that was just life. So younger generation, get over it, do like us, start at the bottom, work your way up, and if you can't have your dream home for a while, as long as you have a roof over your head, be thankful. One of the "gripe" from this report is that with short term tenancies, it wouldn't be right to bring up children while renting. So the solution would be long term tenancies, not shifting the old to small properties? The rest of the world seem to do ok on renting until their 40s, why not our younger people? As for our generation being asset rich, it's only on paper. Our house might have trebbled in price, but so has every other house we might buy. The only winners in all this price hike have been estate agents (% of selling price), the gvt, as more house get into stamp duty price, the gvt again, with death duties, and the gvt again, with covering the cost of care in our later years by using the money from our house's sale. So yes, it is hard for younger people, and a solution needs to be found, but not at the expense of the previous generation please. Get organised, vote, set up pressure groups for more houses to be built,and to restore social housing. It seems our children are too used to look to us for an answer to their problems. Our fault I suppose for making it to comfortable for them over the years.