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is alived reality Alex South,page4life&artssectionMargaret Hamilton,Apollo's pioneering USsoftwareengineer Obituaries,page6Inside  \nThe Guardian Monday 19October2026  \nThis housingcrisisisglobal,andabellwetherfor democraciesLeilaniFarha  \nJournal  \nrotate inandout ofgovernmen positions.They arein the places where decisions are made.  \nnthe summer of2021,Ivisited a homelesscommunity in a parkin Toronto,Canada,andspoke to one of the residents.He was living ina tent in the shadow of brand new skyscrapers,and had been homeless for about five years.At one poin he swivelled around,pointedupat acrane on the skyline,and said:“Who arethey buildingthose for?Deinitely not for me.\"  \nILLUSTRATION:  \nNATHALIELEES  \nEven governments trying to fight the influence of thefinancialsector face intense pressure.In Copenhagen,after the private equity giant Blackstone bought upapartment blocks across the city,renovated themand,in some cases,doubled the rent fornew tenants,the Danish parliament passed legislation barring newowners from raising rents on renovated apartmentsfor five years.While this\"Blackstone law\",as it wascommonly called,was a brave measure,it was weakerthan the government wanted.Kaare Dybvad,thethen housing minister,had proposeda10-year freeze.Facedwith fury from landlords and pension funds andneeding rightwing votes to pass it,he cut it to five.  \nHe was right.And he captured something experiencedby ordinary people around the world:the growingconviction that the housing system is no longertethered totheir needs.What he was pointing at isnot just a housing crisis.It is acrisis of democracy.  \nDemocracy promises that our living conditions areshaped by all of us.Yet decisions about housinghavebeen handedtoprivate equity firms,pension fundsandinvestment trusts.Working hand in hand withgovernments and banks,these financialsector actorshave decoupled the price of housing from ordinaryearnings.They have transformed our homes intoatoyfor wealthy investors.I call this alliance Housing Inc.  \n*  \nThe average tenant,the person experiencinghomelessness,the young person locked out of thehousing market-what do they have?They have avote.That isall.And the vote changes less than weare promised.As the economist Yanis Varoufakishas argued,elections nolonger determine economicpolicy.Governmentsof the leftand the right come andgo,and regardlessof who is in power,rentskeep rising,because the economicmodelalways stays the same:money flows to  \nLeilani Farha  \nis globaldirector  \nofThe Shift  \nand was the  \nUN special  \nThetools available to the large financial actorsdriving the housing crisis are not available to the restofus.They hire armies oflobbyists to squash rent-controllaws.They fund political campaigns.They  \nrapporteur  \non theright  \nto housing,  \n2014-2020  \n2  \nTheGuardian  \nThis housingcrisis isglobal,andabellwether for democraciesLeilaniFarha  \nFounded1821Independentlyownedbythe ScottTrustN956,041Comment isfre...butfactsaresacred'CPScott  \n←Continuedfromfront                                                           \nwherever the returns are highest,whichas property,and away from the publicinvestment that would actuallyhouse people.Wecan change our governments.We cannot,it seems,change the economicpolicies they all adhere to.  \ncontained,showing that the global health systemcan still work well when countries cooperate.This latest incident suggests that one recalcitrantnation can jeopardise everyone's safety.It isnot the WHO's fault that Russia is essentially arogue state,but the body must be ready for sucheventualities.International politics is fragmented,and only becoming more so.  \n# Once again the worldisleftinthe darkaboutapotentialoutbreak\n\nWho decidedthat financial firms could use ourhomes as investments?Not the public.Considerthe bundling of mortgages into securities,whichlaid the ground for the 2008 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