And here's what all that means: This debate, which affects millions of middle-class families, isn't happening in a typical Washington bubble where pundits and policymakers talk past each other as they try to rack up political points.

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We can, well we probably can, say that when a number of developers are vying with each other to announce ever taller buildings then we probably are in a bubble: but that still depends a little on whether those building costs have changed much or not.

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