Comment 2 for bug 1735929

Hello Seth, thank you for your answer.
It is so strange. As far as I know it was done so all users could access ~/Public directory and this does not apply to the directories like .config and .local which could contain private information and application settings.
~/.cache folder still contains 700.
I had correct permissions for those folders before (for example 14.04, 16.04):
/home
----/user1 (755)
--------/Public (755)
--------/.config (700)
--------/.local (700)
--------/.cache (700)
In normal circumstances .config and .local folders will be created by xdg-user-dirs-update utility with 700 permissions. Is it possible that xdg utility doesn't execute correct?