• MrIamsosmrt@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I’m not saying that there isn’t a housing crisis but that article is a huge pile of BS.

    I’m not familiar with Paris but I doubt there are a lot of furnished studio apartments compared to ones without furniture so the 6 months seems like cherry picked data.

    Also the part where they talk about rent prices compared to median income is just wrong:

    In London, the average rent for a one-bedroom flat in the city centre is now nearly €2,500 per month. The sum is more than three times the median monthly wage in the UK.

    So you’re telling me the median monthly wage in the uk is ~800€, yeah right…

    The same thing is happening in Amsterdam, with the average rent being over €1,500 per month, more than two times the median wage in the Netherlands.

    Oh and in the Netherlands it’s less than 750€?

    A quick google search tells me that the median wage in the uk is ~2600€ and for the netherlands I couldn’t find a value for the median wage but the average in 2022 according to statista is >4000€ a month.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      So you’re telling me the median monthly wage in the uk is ~800€, yeah right…

      Yeah, I don’t live in the UK, but that cannot be right. Maybe the author confused disposable income or per capita income with income or something like that.

      https://www.statista.com/statistics/1224824/median-monthly-pay-of-employees-uk/

      That has it at maybe £2300 per month.

      Also, as a lesser note, they should really be comparing wages in London to housing costs in London, not wages in the UK as a whole to housing costs in London.