The millennial bug: public attitudes on the living standards of different...
As previous analysis for the Intergenerational Commission has highlighted, the principle of generation-on-generation progress that has come to define 20th Century Britain shows signs of being...
View ArticleHome affront: the outlook for housing for young people across Britain
In recent decades, housing has gone from being a driver of falling wealth inequality to playing a central role in Britain’s living standards crisis. Across income groups and the generations we see...
View ArticleHome Affront: housing across the generations
In this, our 9th report for the Intergenerational Commission, we take on the hugely important topic of housing. We compare the housing outcomes achieved by different generations over the life course...
View ArticlePoliticians need to be talking about solutions to the housing crisis
Everyone’s worried about the young. Not least because, if June’s election is anything to go by, it turns out that they do in fact vote and aren’t exactly enamoured with what it turns out 21st Century...
View ArticleBritain’s housing catastrophe has driven a 50-year drain on living standards
The average share of income that Britain’s families spend on housing has trebled over the last 50 years, with young people having to make do with longer commutes and smaller, insecure rented...
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Social housing for the younger generations?
Social housing has received much well-deserved attention over the conference season and even looks set to be the star of the show in Theresa May’s speech. But while the rise and fall of the sector is a...
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An additional £2bn for affordable housing – a big deal or just small fry?
It’s the morning after Theresa May committed an additional £2 billion to affordable housing, so is this a big deal or just small fry? The announcement is clearly significant in a number of key ways....
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Black and ethnic minority workers needs a bigger living standards reward for...
On Tuesday, the Government will publish an audit of race disparity across public service outcomes. The data, which will be publicly available, outlines race-based inequality in health, education and...
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Helping or hindering? The latest on Help to Buy
When Sajid Javid announced last month that the government would allocate a new tranche of money to the Help to Buy (HTB) programme he claimed that this would enable “people to make their dream of...
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Strictly Come Building: How housing can make a star turn in the upcoming Budget
Lowering expectations ahead of a Budget always helps a Chancellor. And when it comes to expectations of Cabinet members, Boris Johnson and Priti Patel have definitely been in the lowering business. But...
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Stamping it out? Housing in the Budget
It’s that time of year when we all read the runes from the Treasury in an effort to anticipate what will be announced in the Budget next week. We know the government is acutely aware that nothing ranks...
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Will building more homes help to reduce housing costs?
As part of the Foundation’s ongoing housing work, leading economist and Intergenerational Commission member Kate Barker and Housing market analyst Neal Hudson write about the impact that boosting...
View ArticleFinancial distress edges up for the first time in four years, and households...
Commenting on the Bank of England’s NMG survey from its Quarterly Bulletin published today (Friday), which found increasing levels of financial distress among households in 2017 and more saying they...
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Auto-enrolment has had a great beginning. But will it have a happy ending?
We hear a lot about good policy plans gone wrong (Universal Credit springs to mind) for obvious reasons. But we ought to listen (and learn) from successes too. Auto-enrolment into workplace pension...
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Time for some housing honesty
The return to work after Christmas is never easy. Unless you’re an estate agent: they love January. Following the pre-Christmas lull, families rush back into wanting to buy and sell their houses...
View ArticleCauses and Consequences: The role of household debt in 21st Century Britain
The growth in household debt has outpaced growth in household incomes in recent years, putting questions about the causes and consequences of higher debt back in the spotlight. Should we worry that...
View ArticleBritain has excelled at generating wealth – but lower income families are...
Typical wealth across Britain increased by 13 per cent in real terms in the two years to 2014-16, but wealth inequality remains unacceptably high, the Resolution Foundation said in response to the ONS...
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Seven key takeaways on the level, profile and distribution of Britain’s £12.8...
We get monthly updates on pay and authoritative data on household incomes every year. But we have to wait two years for a detailed breakdown of what’s happening to wealth across Britain. Here are seven...
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How to solve the UK’s growing wealth gaps
This year, average wages are set to be flat. British households, meanwhile, are in the middle of a projected four-year income stagnation. And our productivity has barely risen since the 2008 financial...
View ArticleAn unhealthy interest? Debt distress and the consequences of raising rates
Standing at nearly £1.9 trillion, UK household debt remains a big issue. It is one that has very real and very obvious relevance for those families having to meet repayment commitments. But it is one...
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