Specifically, on the housing side of things, we have made permitting too difficult to go out and build and expand or allow for more housing to be built in the country. We are under, you know, underdeveloped in that sense. We don't have enough housing stock to meet the demand that's out there. There's also the issue of interest rates that became very, very low during the COVID pandemic, probably artificially low in many instances, where people refinance to a very, very low … (09:15–09:19)
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