No simple solutions to England’s housing troubles | Letters

Simon Jenkins plays down the acuteness of the housing crisis (Look at society’s forgotten: there’s the real housing crisis, 9 February), saying there have been “the same price rises” in Australia and America. But in the US the median house price is “only” 5.7 times median household disposable income; in England that ratio is 8.2. A strictly comparable figure for Australia is not available, but the ratio of median house price to median gross household income is