Watch Tower: Acute housing shortage (Central Chronicle)
Story date: 2007-12-27 10:22:57
Added on: 2007-12-27 16:15:25
In spite of the fact that interest rates on housing loans have been almost halved in the past five years and the urban middle class has now more access to bank finance for housing, the housing problem remains as acute as ever.
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