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Boost retirement housing to stop pensioners fleeing cities for coast and countryside, think-tank says

Older people should be helped to spend their later years in new urban retirement housing in town and city centres rather than heading for the coast or the countryside, a new think-tank report says today.

Published: 05 December 2021
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Commentary

Michael Gove’s housing mic-drop falls flat

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has announced plans for increasing housing supply through changes to brownfield planning. Will these changes have an impact on Britain's chronic lack of housing? Senior Researcher Gideon Salutin digs into the details to find out.

Published: 13 February 2024
Author: Gideon Salutin
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Media Release

UK has highest housing costs in the English-speaking world

Brits spend more on housing than their counterparts in New Zealand, Ireland, Australia and Canada – comparable countries that have similar housing crisis issues, Social Market Foundation think tank analysis finds.

Published: 12 March 2024
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Commentary

Return to spender: the Chancellor’s costly stamp duty gamble

Rishi Sunak's stamp duty holiday is risky and expensive. Here are three housing measures he could have announced instead.

Published: 10 July 2020
Author(s): Scott Corfe, Amy Norman
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Commentary

Incorporating health and wellbeing into housing developments

Despite the health, social, and environmental benefits of high-quality housing developments, delivering healthy and sustainable homes and neighbourhoods remains a challenging task. In this blog, Dr Caglar Koksal outlines how housing developers and local authorities can work together to create healthy, high-quality homes while also addressing long-standing health and housing inequalities.

Published: 01 March 2022
Author: Social Market Foundation
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Commentary

The problem with Universal Credit and the Private Rented Sector

...receipt of housing benefit. Furthermore, if a tenant makes a fraudulent housing benefit claim, the local council is able to reclaim overpaid housing benefit directly from the landlord, even if...
Published: 10 April 2015
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Media Release

‘People power’ over planning could help fix housing crisis – think-tank

Giving local residents a greater say over proposed construction in their area could help fix the UK’s housing crisis, according to a new report published by the Social Market Foundation think tank.

Published: 24 October 2021
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Commentary

Your home: The fastest way to make a million (if you’re a Londoner)

...trouble with housing, is that all too often, political considerations trump economic and social ones, as the SMF showed in its Politics of Housing. The justification for Help to Buy...
Published: 08 May 2014
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Media Release

Housing makes Brits worse off than Americans, research shows

Britain’s broken housing market is a prime reason for Britons being worse off than Americans, new research shows today.

Published: 10 August 2023
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