Property News · June 23, 2017

With generation rent voting, could housing be a political game-changer? | Poppy Noor


At the mercy of largely unregulated private landlords, young people are unable to save for their future. No wonder they are backing LabourThere has been much interest in young people in the aftermath of the election. Reporters have focused on a youth surge that may be the reason May lost her majority, with increased numbers of young voters turning out who seem to have largely opted for the Labour party.But could it be that this trend is in fact an indicator of the same old class politics? A YouGov study released last week suggested that class had been turned on its head – with results that showed that you were just as likely to vote Tory if you worked in a manual labour job as if you were upper or middle class. But the real indicator here was age – Labour outperformed the Conservatives in every age group until people reached their 50s. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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