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The basic problem is that the housing price bubble that inflated over recent decades has popped and continues to deflate.

基本问题是近几十年来产生的房屋价格泡沫已经破灭并在持续收缩中。

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What we really ought to be doing here is concentrating on fixing the financial system and the housing problem.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

While the economic problem is housing prices, the financial problem is much bigger.

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It is an intriguing policy for a number of reasons, not least because some would say it is counter-intuitive to tackle the problem of housing that's too expensive for young people by stimulating prices.

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Housing where Gordon has accepted there's a real problem about affordable housing and we're now striking out on that.

BBC: Jack Straw MP. photo courtesy Jeff Overs