Housing
The Census shows that the rental market needs to be reformed
This month’s Census confirms a seismic shift in the way we are living. With homeownership falling, we have to reform the rental market to make it a decent place to live.
By Campbell Robb | Notebook, Property | Friday, 21 December 2012 at 4:34 pm
Housing will be the next political battleground for 2015
The imagery and the towns change, but the theme of party conferences is always the same: we are the party looking out for YOU.
By Roger Harding | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 15 October 2012 at 4:00 am
Is household deleveraging bad for growth?
The British public, in aggregate, paid down existing mortgages over the month, rather than taking on new home borrowing.
Does this matter for the wider economy? Interesting the OBR suggested in March that it does not.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 12:39 pm
How spending cuts delivered the double dip
If the Chancellor had cut less on infrastructure and housing, other things being equal, construction would not have fallen by the same degree, GDP growth in the first quarter would have been flat, and Britain would not now be in a double dip recession.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 11 May 2012 at 2:21 pm
Boris needs to solve the government’s housing policy time bomb
So Boris is back, and with yesterday’s news that tenants are being evicted by unscrupulous landlords ahead of the Olympics, housing issues are already at the fore of the agenda. And what an agenda. Rachmanesque rentiers aside, the government’s reforms have unwittingly created a toxic policy mix that is a ticking time bomb – one with a short fuse, at that: detonation 2013.
By Don Levett | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 1:16 pm
Pods of forced civilization: The problem with China’s architectural boom
“China is undeniably growing. Driving North from Beijing, you can see miniature cities trying to spring up in the form of clusters of 25 storey residences in various stages of completion, etching civilization into the mountainous landscape.
By John Houghton-Brown | Notebook | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 10:35 am
Online House Hunter: Brixton
If you want to live in the true heart of London then set your sights on Brixton. Although it’s sometimes in the news for the wrong reasons, it has a vibrancy and community spirit all of its own…
By Alan Cleaver | Property | Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 7:00 am
Why try to buck the housing market?
The cliché count is usually a reliable indicator of intellectual quality (see The Banned List), in which case the Government’s “housing strategy” (pdf) is a stinker. The title, Laying the Foundations is bad enough: a gerund, which is itself a cliché, and a cliché. It says it is a “radical and unashamedly ambitious strategy”, promises to “kick-start [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 21 November 2011 at 7:43 pm
Can we rationalise the Dale Farm eviction?
Spend £18.5m of public cash on making 86 gypsy families homeless, while proposing to combat homelessness with caravans? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
By Charlie Alderwick | Notebook | Monday, 19 September 2011 at 5:00 pm
Pity the nation’s renters
Landlords are gouging tenants because they can. The demand for rental properties is high because young people cannot get the finance to buy. And there’s severe restrictions on the supply of new rental properties.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Thursday, 15 September 2011 at 7:00 pm
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