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WTF, housing market?

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The Housing Crisis Is Increasingly a Political Theme

I do think in the nelands and elsewhere, housing is increasingly a political theme. One reason is that many of the middle people, they're not feeling the housing crisis yet. A second part of the issue is the fact that we've enternalized that it's your individual mistake if you are in a poor living situation. We're more likely to point at migrants or other people, blaming them for the housing crisis than pointing at the political elits for having caused this crisis. It's basically this new liberal idea of the individualization of responsibility and of blame.

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