England’s 20 year housing stock squeeze has left 1.7 million families sharing...
England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families, following 20 years of its housing stock not keeping pace with demographic change, according to new analysis published today (Saturday) by the...
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The one million missing homes?
The relationship between housing supply and demand is always going to be of interest to those (like us) who care about living standards and housing costs. The ONS household figures published last month...
View ArticleHome ownership ticks up – but it’s coming later in life
Home ownership rates rose across England (up 1 percentage point to 64 per cent), and even in London (up slightly to 48 per cent), last year (2017/18) – the Resolution Foundation said today (Thursday)...
View ArticleOld answers to new questions? The future of social housing in the UK
Post-war governments invested heavily in social housing. But it then fell spectacularly out of favour, with the introduction of Right-to-Buy in 1980 sparking a decline in social housing stock. Almost...
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More ambition, less risk – building on the success of auto-enrolment
We often find it harder to celebrate policy successes than decry policy failures. So you might have missed a policy success which we are marking this week. We are about to have completed the successful...
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We need cash for social housing – but honesty and answers too
Housing has returned to British politics. Falls in home ownership have driven it there, but in so doing opened up a much needed debate about a long neglected issue: renting. Too often in recent decades...
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Social renting: a working hypothesis
Social housing has many virtues: it provides families with a secure home at a reasonable rent, and the state with a smaller benefit bill and an asset to leverage. So what’s not to like? Other than the...
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To build, or not to build: that is the question
They say a week is a long time in politics (at the moment a day can feel like a long time). The same isn’t often true about economics. Arguably the most important forces in economics are long-running;...
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Top Of The Charts: Bridging Divides
Sign up for our weekly Top of the Charts emails here Afternoon all, Nothing Lasts Forever these days. In the end the whale spits you out, or the Ecuadorians kick you out. That might be good news for...
View ArticleSocial housing: time for change – and for long-term investment
Guest post from Kate Henderson, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation This week the Resolution Foundation is throwing a welcome spotlight on the future of housing for social rent, and I’m...
View ArticleMoving on up: Has Britain’s housing crisis made us a less mobile nation?
Addressing Britain’s housing crisis is now firmly on the political agenda, but it is far bigger than millennials’ struggle to get onto the property ladder. The implications of big changes to housing...
View ArticleMoving Matters: Housing costs and labour market mobility
Making a move – to a new job, a new home or both – can be born of many things, and it is this complex topic of residential and job mobility that is the subject of this briefing note. While the received...
View ArticleHigh rents and fewer employment black spots are making millennials less job...
Higher rents are reducing the financial gains from moving to better paying parts of the country, and mean that young people are less mobile than they were 20 years ago, according to new research...
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Britain has become a less mobile nation – why?
Donald Trump tells us there are no protesters. He says it so often, he probably believes it. Which is worrying, but also fairly normal. There are stories we hear so often that we simply assume they are...
View ArticleGame of Homes: The rise of multiple property ownership in Great Britain
Additional property wealth is a big deal in Britain today. One-in-nine adults own some, and its combined value is almost £1 trillion. By value, it makes up one-sixth of all property wealth. Game of...
View ArticleOld answers to new questions? The future of social housing in the UK
Post-war governments invested heavily in social housing. But it then fell spectacularly out of favour, with the introduction of Right-to-Buy in 1980 sparking a decline in social housing stock. Almost...
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More ambition, less risk – building on the success of auto-enrolment
We often find it harder to celebrate policy successes than decry policy failures. So you might have missed a policy success which we are marking this week. We are about to have completed the successful...
View ArticleMoving matters: Housing costs and labour market mobility
Making a move – to a new job, a new home or both – can be born of many things, and it is this complex topic of residential and job mobility that is the subject of this briefing note. While the received...
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Who owns Britain’s £13tn wealth?
Britain is in the middle of a decades-long wealth boom. Total wealth now stands at a record £12.8tn, or almost 13 million millions. But where you live, and when you were born plays a big part in how...
View ArticleTaking stock: Report for the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Commission
There has been a growing appreciation in recent years that living standards are determined not just by income (the flow of money into a household) but also by wealth (the stock of assets a household...
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