In May 2017, Sophie Bichener did what many in their twenties are unable to do: buy a home. She paid around £230,000 (around $295,000 at the time) for her two-bedroom apartment in a high-rise building in a town north of London, where a train could get her to work in the capital in less than half an hour. She had her foot on the first rung of Britain's housing ladder, an increasingly difficult feat, and it felt like the only way was up.
source https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/31/uk/cladding-cost-of-living-crisis-grenfell-cmd-gbr-intl/index.html
