In this blog post, Samuel Moore (recent alumnus of Durham University), draws on his recent research into the student housing crisis. Amid a national student housing crisis, where rents have surged by over 8% in a year, while maintenance support has risen by only...
Britain today is more diverse than ever before, and recent polling suggests that public attitudes towards diversity have grown increasingly positive. However, beneath this progress lies a persistent reality: ethnic inequalities remain deeply entrenched. One area where...
The following article by Urvish Patel (National Institute of Economic and Social Research, NIESR) was originally published at Economics Observatory on 28 June 2023. UK house prices have stalled in recent months, driven in part by higher borrowing...
The housing market has a significant impact on wealth inequality, as those who own property tend to accumulate more wealth than those who do not. This has important implications for policies aimed at reducing wealth inequality. In a recent article originally published...
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...
In little more than a decade, the UK’s housing system has faced two major shocks: the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic. How resilient has our housing system been in the face of such adversity? And how has it responded? This blog reflects on a...
In this blog, University of Glasgow researcher Andrew Watson highlights the findings from the report, The pandemic arrears crisis: Private landlord perspectives on the temporary legislation impacting the Private Rented Sector, which was published on 8 November 2021....
In this blog we briefly summarise the key points made in a recently published report that CaCHE undertook for the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland that investigated the demand for, and potential design of, an intermediate rental model for...
On 9 July 2021, the Scottish Government published a report on The Value, Incidence and Impact of Developer Contributions in Scotland. The report is an independent piece of research on Section 75 planning obligations – the equivalent of Section 106 in England – and...
The latest issue of the National Institute Economic Review contains new research focused on the “broken” housing market in the UK and policy options for fixing it, following a successful conference on these themes co-organised by CaCHE. Leading experts in the...