[fragmede]

> This is wildly unpopular.

Case in point. No one's suggesting confiscating anything, yet some people can't contain themselves at the suggestion that maybe housing policy is broken.

[ghusto]

The policy of people paying for homes then keeping those homes, even when, gasp, they get old?!

Demanding that older people "downsize" is a policy, and not one that's very savoury.