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Behind the spin, the housing crisis continues (www.thepress.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by jeff11 to c/politics

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Back in 1935 the first Labour government came to power and faced a severe housing crisis. It didn’t fiddle and tinker – it rolled its sleeves up. By the late 1930s it was building 3500 state houses per year for a population of around 1.5 million.

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[–] Ilovethebomb 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you're going to post a paywalled article, it's a common courtesy to post the plain text in either the text section of the post, or a comment.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can read it fine? Just close the popup that asks you to subscribe, it's an ad not a paywall as far as I can tell.

[–] Ilovethebomb 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Close it where?

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You must get special treatment. They give me an X:

Are you in an app? Maybe try opening in a mobile browser?

[–] Ilovethebomb -2 points 1 year ago

I don't care enough to bother, to be honest.

[–] Rangelus 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not paywalled.

[–] Ilovethebomb 1 points 1 year ago

You sure?

[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That is really weird, I am on Firefox on Linux Mint, no popup at all. Article is all there.

I am running uMatrix script blocker, but that doesn't seem to block those popups on other sites.

Same thing on Firefox for Android.....no popup at all. Maybe it is a Chrome thing.

[–] Rangelus 2 points 1 year ago

My Chrome on android had no popup at all.