{
  "id": 679975,
  "title": "Isn’t it amazing what a policy that actually tackles the cause of outrageous house prices can do? | Grogonomics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/isnt-it-amazing-what-a-policy-that-actually-tackles-the-cause-of",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T15:00:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/aug/12/isnt-it-amazing-what-a-policy-that-actually-tackles-the-cause-of-outrageous-house-prices-can-do"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Labor has shown what a government can do to improve housing affordability, exposing how pathetic previous attempts had been Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast For the first time in 25 years, an Australian government actually did something about housing based on the idea that the only way to make houses more affordable is for house prices to fall. They stopped pretending…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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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."
}