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...But experts agree that there are two outstanding culprits today: the exorbitant cost of education and housing. Fearful of these twin expenses, young couples have not dared to have and raise children....
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...We will face bigger challenges, from new housing and planning permissions to the climate emergency....
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...Authorities and witnesses said he apparently shot himself not far from his house in Hermanus, a wealthy coastal town south of Cape Town, beneath the cliff paths overlooking the ocean....
...But those depressed by the state of the UK housing market will be even less so....
...the south-east of the city....
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...Housing associations completed 40,000 homes across the UK in the year to March, while local authorities built 4,000, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics....
...the body that represents local authorities in England and Wales....
...Markets are on high alert for possible currency interventions by the authorities in Japan and South Korea. This leaves Powell in a pickle....
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