The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) had wide-ranging impacts on the global economy, including immense and long-lasting effects on housing markets and insecurity. Economic scarring took place across many nations, and the UK housing market experienced a particularly...
In the last few weeks, two eminent broadsheet columnists coincidentally produced dovetailing pieces about the strategic need to remake housing policy. Will Hutton, in the Observer, detailed the nature and wider significance of our wasteful housing (Hutton...
Last week the new Programme for Government had an unexpected centre piece. In response to the escalating cost of living crisis, there was an announcement to bring forward emergency legislation concerning a rent freeze to be enacted across private and social...
Potential government measures to help more people get on the housing ladder are unlikely to help first-time buyers. UK borrowers may see the return of larger, longer-term loans as the government plans a comprehensive review of the mortgage market with the aim...
In this blog, Professor Mark Stephens and Dr Rod Hick explain the development of comparative housing research and suggest that care must be taken when seeking to learn lessons from other countries. In 1933 a delegation of councillors from Leeds visited Vienna seeking...
In this blog, Dr Chris Foye summarises his recently published article, Section 106, Viability, and the Depoliticization of English Land Value Capture Policy. In the three decades post-WWII, land was central to the national political debate. For the Labour...
In this blog, Prof Christine Whitehead and Prof Geoff Meen reflect on the recent report, Meeting Housing Demand, from the House of Lords Built Environment Committee. On the 10th January the House of Lords Built Environment Committee published its...