Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw up'

Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw... by ivan_gammel on Monday May 27, 2024 @05:45PM (#40495045)

Rooms used for another purpose are not called bedrooms. See yourself: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/...

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Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw... by nemomarx on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:03PM (#40495187)

How does a guest bedroom get counted, out of curiosity?

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Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw... by ivan_gammel on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:34PM (#40495825)

Guest bedroom is underutilized space unless you are a hotel or full-time Airbnb. How often people are staying there? A few months a year in total, if children spend the whole summer with grandparents and visit on rare holidays?

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Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw... by toasterlovin on Monday May 27, 2024 @09:05PM (#40496371)

Is that a problem? It's a guest bedroom for every two houses. Something approaching the vast majority of all economic output goes toward things which are extraneous when measured against the historical median standard of living. But people like nice things. And a guest bedroom is a nice thing that some people like.

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Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw... by CalRobert on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @11:46AM (#40501909)

That feels... weird. Would you say a car is underutilized if it's not being driven 24 hours a day?

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Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw... by IanCal on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:32AM (#40501099)

They can be. My house is a four bedroom house. One of those is used as an office.

Nothing in the ONS link says otherwise, they just ask

"How many bedrooms are available for use only by this household?"

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