Do young people in London care about the lack of affordable housing?

Yeah, I've lived in London all my life and I'm looking to get out. I read somewhere that the average houseprice in London will reach a million by 2025.
I think the city will eventually be a place where only high earning white collar workers and wealthy foreigners reside. I don't see how the city will be able to maintain its diversity.




What's the main reason you don't want to live in London? The young people I've come across are obsessed with being a "Londoner" - even if that means living in cramped, shared households well into their adult lives.

As a prospective student at UCL, I'm not too bothered about borrowing an extra grand or two a year to live in London if that means going to my dream uni, getting into all the societies there, and hopefully ending up in a relatively well-paid job that allows me to pay my loans back. I've seen and compared the inside of student halls and private flats in Oxford, Bristol and central London (indeed, I stayed in halls for my Oxford interview and at LPH on Talbot Square over the summer), and the difference between Oxford and London in particular was negigible, other than the fact that your accommodation tends to be further away from where your lectures are in London than at the other two.

Once I graduate, however, I think that I'll face an entirely different story. For now, it's 'kay.

Because it's a playground...

Getting on the ladder is a pipedream for many young people yet in my experience they don't seem too bothered by it.
Council housing looks like it will become a thing of past, private rents are soaring and house prices are ridiculous and show no signs of stalling. And yet it feels like young people aren't bothered by any of it.
Why aren't people up in arms about it? London in particular, is slowly being cleansed and sold off to (more often than not) rich foreign millionares with spare cash to burn. It's clear that these new builds cropping up everywhere aren't aimed at the average earner and no one seems to care.
Are young people happy with the prospect of paying stupid amounts of money in rent for the rest of their lives with little security? How will you start a family? What will you do when you retire or if you cannot work?
Just get the feeling that the young people I've encountered aren't very bothered by this issue.


Thoughts?

Or you could move out of London and be able to afford to buy a house.

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What zone do you live in?

I lived in Zone 1 in my first year.

As I suspected. Most/all of the problems you cited in post 8 would melt away if you lived in zones 4-6, imho.

People (not necessarily you, just saying in general) shouldn't judge London based on the centre; it's not representative of the whole.

Plenty of affordable housing in the UK.

I can't afford a riverside property right by the Thames in Mapledurham. Doesn't mean that I worried about it, I just went somewhere that I could afford.

If you're working a low paid job in London.. you can probably get that same low paid job elsewhere and be able to afford a house.

Young people dont care because they're all too busy with instagram and snapchat to realise they're going to be renting wageslaves for the rest of their lives.

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The problem with this is that London will soon be bereft of lower paid service workers it relies on to keep the city moving..