{"id":26626,"date":"2021-01-11T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T05:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/jan\/11\/new-zealands-public-secret-house-prices-wont-come-down-until-we-really-want-them-to"},"modified":"2021-01-11T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T05:57:32","slug":"new-zealands-public-secret-house-prices-wont-come-down-until-we-really-want-them-to-iain-white-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26626","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s &#8216;public secret&#8217;: house prices won&#8217;t come down until we really want them to | Iain White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us express concern about the country\u2019s soaring house prices &#8211; but we also vote for policies that let them stay that way<\/p>\n<p>It was the anthropologist Michael Taussig who coined the term \u201cpublic secret\u201d \u2013 a collective social understanding, a truth generally accepted but not articulated.<\/p>\n<p>Public secrets, he argued, can be important to the functioning of institutions and societies: they allow the existence of seemingly contradictory positions, help maintain current power relations, and assist in reconciling the inevitable tensions of policy or complexities of politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/jan\/11\/new-zealands-public-secret-house-prices-wont-come-down-until-we-really-want-them-to\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us express concern about the country\u2019s soaring house prices &#8211; but we also vote for policies that let them stay that wayIt was the anthropologist Michael Taussig who coined the term \u201cpublic secret\u201d \u2013 a collective social understanding, a truth ge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26627,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626\/revisions\/26627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}