Funding the Future

The great British housing illusion


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Britain’s housing market has become a Ponzi scheme — built not on value, but on debt, illusion and exclusion. Successive governments have turned homes into speculative assets, trapping generations in rent, despair and insecurity. In this video, I explain how tax breaks, financialisation and political cowardice created a housing system that rewards luck and age, not effort — and what must now be done to rebuild homes, communities and hope.

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Funding the FutureBy Richard Murphy