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Saturday column: Place building to subsidise 'affordable' house building?

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Jun 07, 2025
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MAYBE it’s because of the ‘soundbite’ media culture that every politician requires to master, or the nature of city council committee meetings (which tend to require short, snappy interjections), but there is something strangely one-dimensional when housing is debated in Edinburgh, and more widely in Scotland.

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