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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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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 |
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Author: | Gideon Salutin |
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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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 |
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Author(s): | Scott Corfe, Amy Norman |
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 |
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Author: | Social Market Foundation |
The problem with Universal Credit and the Private Rented Sector
Published: | 10 April 2015 |
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‘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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Your home: The fastest way to make a million (if you’re a Londoner)
Published: | 08 May 2014 |
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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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