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5 Ways to Fix New York City’s Housing Crisis

Here is what renters, landlords, developers and politicians say.

The U.S. Needs to Keep Building Houses, Even if No One Wants to Buy

Right now, builders have too many projects and not enough buyers. In the long term, Americans have the opposite problem: a housing shortage.

The country is facing a dire shortage, which is having an impact on its politics tooPrices have more than tripled

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Remove the onion and you struggle to imagine Indian cuisine
Prices have more than tripled
onion 
noun [C or U]
a vegetable with a strong smell and flavour, made up of several layers surrounding each other tightly in a round shape, usually brown or red on the outside and white inside:
I always cry when I'm chopping onions.
Fry the onion and garlic for about two minutes.

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Onion

onion snow
n. Chiefly Pennsylvania.
A light snow in late spring, after onions have been planted. (© Houghton Mifflin Company)

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