Is Omaze too good to be true?

Hollie Wright wrote about what the Omaze housing raffle reveals about the UK’s housing market, in the New Statesman:

“What Omaze is really trading on is the British conflation of housing and wealth. […] A Croydon renter might genuinely be buying a ticket out of housing precarity, but the suburban homeowner entering Omaze is not dreaming about living in a six-bed in Norfolk; they are trying to win money. Once that is obvious, the line between ​‘housing crisis’ and ​‘wealth crisis’ becomes blurry. Omaze’s core offer looks a lot like cold cash rather than a home, and you can thank the UK housing market for that.”

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