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Hijacked housing debate trifecta

Three easy pieces on how we're being distracted from real affordability solutions.

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Oct 05, 2025
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Today, dear reader, you have won the housing policy trifecta.

The first of three pieces below is an extract from Cameron’s book The Great Housing Hijack which explains the symmetry of housing markets — a key feature of housing that encourages vested interests to hijack debates, and leads any attempt at consistent reasoning to appear out of tune with the …

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