Here the housing market has crashed, somewhat. But few can get a mortgage, because the banks the tax payer bailed out aren't making loans, despite "quantative easing". The private rental market is through the roof. Houses that are being sold are being sold to landlords, the govt is projecting the lowest level of private home ownership in 25 years, in fact since Thatcher instituted the 'right to buy' and a large number of council houses were sold. Most of my friends who own homes had significant financial help.
Hardly surprising that people don't like that sort of state of affairs. As I say, my panties aren't in a wad about this, or about a group of people who aren't really going to get a lot achieved but whine publicly about it. Most of them aren't dreadful awful leftists, they're just people trying to get by, who feel utterly screwed over by situations like the one detailed above. We all know the "dream", but reality bites. Not sure why anyone would get so irate about them.