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Behind Britain’s housing crisis—the financialisation of housing and the rise of the rentier class
06 Oct 2025 19:02 GMT
Wherever you go, one topic dominates the conversation: the high and ever-rising cost of housing, be it mortgage payments or rents.
In London, it takes four incomes to afford a two-bedroom apartment. The high cost of housing is pushing people into poverty …
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Opinion: Throwing more money at it won't solve the housing crisis. We need more workers
05 Oct 2025 06:48 GMT
IN A BBC radio interview in April 1942, John Maynard Keynes recounted a conversation with an architect about plans to rebuild London after the war. The architect was concerned about where the money would come from. Keynes replied that houses are not built …
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Sunday newspaper round-up: JLR bailout, drone wall, suspected Russian incursion, Revolut, Reform UK, Rackhams, new towns
28 Sep 2025 08:09 GMT
(Sharecast News) - Jaguar Land Rover has been rescued with a £1.5bn government-backed loan after it stopped manufacturing following a cyber attack. The cash injection will allow JLR to support its supply chain after firms warned of mass layoffs and …
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CRISIS WITHOUT CURE: A Marxist analysis of the impending stock market crash
23 Oct 2025 21:13 GMT
… 2008 crisis, the subprime mortgage crisis, and it is linked … they said during the subprime mortgage crisis.
They would lend money …
Francesco
Yeah, because the bailout meant a steep increase in … the consequences of the 2008 bailout was austerity.
The state …
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Renew Financial CEO Addresses Housing Crisis, Innovative Policy Solutions on 13th & Park
18 Jun 2025 20:27 GMT
… program – broke down the current housing crisis and highlighted how home hardening … ’s not a taxpayer-funded bailout?” said Gupta. “The country needs …
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Sell off Fannie & Freddie to end housing crisis
20 May 2025 09:15 GMT
… years after a massive government bailout saved them from fiscal … after getting a $190 billion bailout in 2008, they have … entities in exchange for the bailout, the government can cash … cannot afford better alternatives. The housing crisis is real and it’s …
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Morning Mail: US pushes for Aukus tweaks, environment reforms to target company profits, and how to keep pets cool
21 Oct 2025 20:13 GMT
… echoes of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that kicked off the global … TT-Line might need a bailout as its port terminal project …
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Greece Has Become a ‘Café Economy’, LSE Study Finds
21 Oct 2025 07:27 GMT
… Greece’s economy following the bailout era.
The study, co-authored … promised productivity increase via the bailout reforms, the Greek economy experienced … under the label of “overtourism.”
Housing Crisis: The increase in short-term …
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STRONG TOWNS: Economies of Scale Won’t Solve the Housing Crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:40 GMT
… in the 1980s, the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 — led to even … cycle of risk, collapse and bailout has made housing a primary … Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis,” a national bestseller. And, at …
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A pro-growth Yimby ally has some untimely questions about Wiener’s new bill
20 Oct 2025 01:59 GMT
… to do to fix the housing crisis and meet its climate goals … declined to act on a bailout package for transit”
SB 63 … the root cause of the housing crisis:
These inquiries variously note the …