Interesting; I think this is very UK - compare that to Ireland where it seems that Dublin was wrecked the most by austerity measures after the crash? I guess it depends how you measure it - are we counting high rents as a part of the effects of the crash? (influx of real estate investment bc the rest of the market is unstable -> low housing supply, plus obviously the long holdover of Thatcher demolishing Britain's social housing programs in the UK)

Nonetheless, it's definitely true that this crash is very different from the 2008 one (like, first off, the fucking stock market is apparently great!)