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John: It's still a massive issue in my neighbourhood, because there's a shortage of affordable housing to rent and we can't carry on saying everybody buy, because for young people it's difficult but, more than that, there's a big social change as well. And that's about relationships.
2. If I were to say to you relationships in my neighbourhood between young couples, maximum, last three years, so they're very short term. But then what happens, they split up, they've two kids. For a young man now to get access to his kids he needs a two bedroom house.
3. Now, in the past, a young man split with his wife or partner, he'd go live in a bed-sit and visit the kids maybe. Now he needs access and a place for them to stay with him. So, every time a couple split up you need two houses, every time they split up again you need two more houses. So, it's geometric progression not.so the demands on housing is massive, and we're not really addressing that question.
4. Two things to do, one is stabilise relationships, can they hang out there a bit longer please because life not.ought not to be that desperate, and can we help young couples sustain their relationships. But there is a shortage of a decent, affordable rent in housing, and that's a campaign we've got to still have at national level.
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Mary: Ah-ha, thank you.
