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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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Does this long sentence make sense?

Since 1997, the housing market has been spiralling to unaffordable heights, spurred on in part by not only low interest rates, but also a lack of affordable housing, which itself is accounted for by a failure of microeconomics whereby supply does not meet demand.

Does this make sense? Thank you.

  

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I would make some minor changes to make it clearer. Or you could simply break it into shorter sentences. Here are examples of the two approaches: Since 1997, the housing market has been spiralling to unaffordable heights, spurred on not only by low interest rates, but also by the lack of affordable housing caused by the [microeconomics] failure of supply to meet demand.

  • I would make some minor changes to make it clearer.
  • Or you could simply break it into shorter sentences.
  • Here are examples of the two approaches: Since 1997, the housing market has been spiralling to unaffordable heights, spurred on not only by low interest rates, but also by the lack of affordable housing caused by the [microeconomics] failure of supply to meet demand.
  • OR Since 1997, the housing market has risen to unaffordable heights.
  • This rise was spurred on not only by low interest rates but, more importantly, by the lack of affordable housing.
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I would make some minor changes to make it clearer. Or you could simply break it into shorter sentences. Here are examples of the two approaches:

Since 1997, the housing market has been spiralling to unaffordable heights, spurred on not only by low interest rates, but also by the lack of affordable housing caused by the [microeconomics] failure of supply to meet demand.

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