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Our obsession with ownership
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Our obsession with ownership

Our need to own a home is pushing prices ever higher. We’ll stretch ourselves financially to secure our future. But how different would the economy be if we weren’t so in love with homeownership?
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We are obsessed with the need to own things, not least, our homes. But for younger people that is increasingly becoming a pipedream, unless they are lucky enough to gain a healthy inheritance. Even then it’s going to come later in life. In the meantime, we save like crazy, and even when we do get a house, we spend decades paying it off though a hefty lo…

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