{
  "id": 4917994,
  "title": "Do our pollies really want a more ‘affordable’ housing market? We’re about to find out",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/do-our-pollies-really-want-a-more-affordable-housing-market-were",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-01T19:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
    "slug": "the-sydney-morning-herald",
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/do-our-pollies-really-want-a-more-affordable-housing-market-we-re-about-to-find-out-20260901-p60teh.html?ref=rss"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "If you force them to choose, politicians will always go for rising rather than falling house prices. Why? Arithmetic.",
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        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "Do our pollies really want a more ‘affordable’ housing market? We’re about to find out",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/do-our-pollies-really-want-a-more-affordable-housing-market-were-4918430",
        "published": "2026-09-01T19:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}