The problem is that we built a housing system increasingly organised around speculation and then act surprised when some of its casualties become impossible to ignore.
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The problem is that we built a housing system increasingly organised around speculation and then act surprised when some of its casualties become impossible to ignore.
Populism gains traction by pointing at real pressures: housing stress, cost-of-living anxiety, cultural dislocation, institutional distance, a sense that no one is steering. These are not imagined problems. They are the very real conditions that make people receptive to blunt answers and strong voices. The tragedy is that the tools populism offers to address these […]