At last, someone has shown why poverty continues to grow despite millions being poured in by the government (“Coalition of the willing”, July 15). Our poverty is of course not helped by substance abuse, etc, but we can hardly consider unemployment to be part of the problem, with such low levels now. The problem is twofold: lack of public housing and the overinflated property market, which even the Economist has remarked is higher than elsewhere in the world.
The issue is that economic policy moves like a glacier. Directions taken in the 1990s are only now, 30 years later, beginning to take effect. Our lack of investment in the public sector and lack of housing are only now being realised as major issues facing the country. We also lifted demand
