How did we get into such a mess?

How the hell did this happen?

Young people turning their backs on homeownership

Is the Great British love affair with homeownership drawing to a close?

Housing got us into this mess and it can get us out

It’s a brave man who calls the bottom of the housing market and an even braver one who calls the bottom of wider economic crisis. Yesterday Bank of England governor Mervyn King was doing neither of these things, going out of his way to play down any talk of green shoots and lower expectations of a quick recovery.