So we've not quite hit the £60,000 affordability target ...............

KJ Bush, Maidstone, UK

Maybe i'll be able to afford a house when the housing market collaspes and the US doller go's the journey!

Flat pack house's, get real, the tin pot house's they build now are bad enough. Compromise quality, why? it's Gordon who has to answer a few questions on this and why it's really happening.

Andy, england,

I earn £100 a week and pay £30 a week rent for a beautiful new 3 bedroom house in Guadalajara Mexico. That's affordable. Plus the amenities are cheap cheap cheap.
The headache of the housing rubbish at home was the main reason I left looking for another lifestyle - and guess what... I found another one and it rocks.
The government is only going to start noticing that people cannot be bothered with the system of living in England once English people up and leave and find a nicer life. Believe me, there are much nicer places to live and much better ways to spend your 90 years on the planet!
Their bias and blindness toward what people have to sacrifice to live comfortably in England is extreme, (and that's only if people can find a way to live comfortably).

louise, guadalajara, mexico

£100,000 for a flat-pack one bedroom IKEA shoebox flat, with thin walls and timber frame construction? This is the answer to this country's housing problems? I'd rather live in a caravan, and it'd last longer.

Neil S, Glasgow, Scotland

with all the available properties on the market there is hardly a shortage of housing

HS, devizes,

North East median salary = 18K

Price of "affordable", flatpack, 1 bedroom starter home = 100K.

Genius.

PT, Tynemouth, UK

No no, a million times no! It's not the solution for affordable housing, as only certain people are eligible to buy most of them. It is a solution for "Affordable Housing", that proportion of new developments which must be designed with BIGGER space layouts than those designed for second-class private citizens who actually have to earn and pay the way for their own place with no help. These "Affordable" schemes are disgusting - they discriminate in favour of council tenants, keyworkers and those of a certain salary, and discriminate against the rest of us who also haven't got a hope in hell of getting on the property ladder.

The result is a load of smug "Affordable/Shared Ownership Housing" homeowners living in subsidised luxury, overlooking the rest of us living in rented crammed rooms who are working our butts off to pay for the very subsidies that means they live in bliss, and we live in hell.

It's economically insane and immoral. Affordable? Only for The Chosen.

Laura Roberts, London, UK

This is not very accurate reporting a household income of £15000 would not allow for a mortgage of £100000 especially in todays climate. There is a large profit margin being made on these flat packs sold as 'affordable', miss leading to anyone too anxious to get on the property ladder to research the market properly. The article doesn't pick up on this.

Paul, London,

I can't ever recall anyone in the "home industry", even the Government, calculating how they arrive at what is affordable. I can only guess that as long as it is a few thousand less than the average house price then it must be affordable - they must think people are mugs. Affordable and prudent to me is 3 times the average salary, roughly £75000 and thats for the average house, not concrete lego.

Paul, Blackpool,

Great idea, i am old enough to remember pre fabs that where built after the war, but someone is making to much profit a hundred grand for a flat, how can you afford that if you are earning £15,000 a year.

Pete Buckingham, winsford, cheshire

Is it April fools day or am I the only one thinking that this is a joke. One hundred thousand pounds for as one bedroom flat and houses start at 132,500, erm back to the drawing board for affordable houses me thinks. If this is the best IKEA can do then we all better get the card board boxes out and pray for good weather. So who is creaming the profits off this because I thought you would be able to fill a castle with IKEA products with a hundred grand. This is not affordable for products that last for as long as you don't use them. There are real flats available in bricks and concrete cheaper than this without looking too hard in Gateshead or did everyone forget to check the local housing market.

Howard, Gateshead, UK