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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?

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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