Which, in times of working from home, means 4 bedrooms, 2 offices, 1 living room.
Ideally with walls not built from paper mache, so that they can actually be used for encapsulation of different requirements.
So that does sound like it is very much an issue. To someone, anyway. I don't really care. I have no horse in this race.
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To cover the expected pedantic reply:
Of course technically it's everyone's problem. But just because it technically affects you doesn't mean that you have to emotionally involve yourself in stupid online discussions that don't comprehend systemic views and mistake them for personal whining.
Why do you need an entire room each for an office? I work in a corner of a bedroom, and have previously had a desk in a living room. I know lots of people who do the same. I know few families where both parents work from home. Where more than one person works from home they can share an office.
If people work from home to a large extent, less office space is required, so the cost of land should go down. It does not because most people are not working from home.
No one said that one cannot make do. One can always make do.
"Just stop preferring that"? Good luck enforcing that.
I guess this will work for something like 10-20%? Maybe? (Speaking from a very german cultural background)
Even then, it would not solve any problems here, really.
On one hand, all of this is understandable, but on the other hand these policies do indeed raise the cost of having children.
Fuck that.
If we want them to have 3+ children, we need to reduce these sources of friction of doing so.