China --- "Social housing is there to support people through hard times"
I'm sorry but that it is patently not true. There has been and always will be a need for "social" housing. The economy never has and never will be at a level where everybody will be able to afford to buy their own property. This has long been recognised.
My daughter and her partner both work and earn a reasonable amount of money between them but, in the current climate, there is absolutely no chance of them buying property.