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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/45792214

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

First you steal peoples' money in endless real estate Ponzi schemes. Then you act surprised that they don't have any money left to spend.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is not the Chinese working class is who is getting soaked by those, it is foreign and domestic capitalists.

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“We will scale up the building and supply of government-subsidized housing and improve the basic systems for commodity housing to meet people’s essential need for a home to live in and their different demands for better housing,” an English-language version of the report said.

[–] imapuppetlookaway@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is an old story, except for the LA Times. The guy on Money and Macro explains the situation better in this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOSWQttmvU