"Well we had it tough," begins the famous Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen skit, "You tell the young people of today that, and they wouldn't believe you!" This is what came to mind reading Dee Broughton's "We may own a home but we did it tough", a piece that completely misses the point about millennials' frustration with the housing market.

No one is saying that previous generations didn't work hard to secure a deposit for a home. What we are saying is that the current housing market, a combination of low interest rates, negative gearing and relaxed capital gains taxes has created a situation where houses have become investment vehicles; quick ways to make money and not places to be lived in.

Our frustration doesn't stem from a false belief that previous generations didn't suffer through menial and degrading jobs. Nor do we think that owning a house doesn't require sacrificing a few luxuries. That's obvious.

What our generation is frustrated by is inertia in politics and a party unwilling to concede that the unequal distribution of property - and a view that property ownership is an easy way for the rich to accumulate money - is wrong.