Is housing still about shelter — or about wealth?

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We know that for many young people home ownership feels increasingly out of reach. Is this the result of treating homes as investments rather than places to live? Our next guest says decades of market-driven policy have deepened inequality, strained communities, and left Canadians competing against one another. To talk more about Evan chats with Jessica Barrett, award-winning journalist and author of No Place Like Home: The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis.
10 Mar 12PM English South Africa News Commentary

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