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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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Commentary
Is the housing debate too narrow?
...tenth of the entire manifesto. In contrast, in the past decade, the proportion dedicated to housing hovers around 2%. This reinforces other evidence that indicates that housing has become a...
| Published: | 15 September 2013 |
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Dwelling on it: Housing crises in the English speaking world
...of housing increasingly politically salient. This briefing looks at four dimensions of the housing crisis: homeownership, private renting, social housing and homelessness. Homeownership rates in Britain have fallen in recent...
| Published: | 13 March 2024 |
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| Author: | Jamie Gollings |
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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Publication
Co-Living: A Solution to the Housing Crisis?
...Co-living refers to housing models where individuals have a private housing space, but also have access to a range of communal facilities such as shared living areas, dining spaces, gyms,...
| Published: | 26 February 2019 |
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| Author: | Scott Corfe |
Publication
The Missing Rung: London’s housing squeeze
...unaffordable or high housing costs if it spends more than one third of its total net income, including benefits (such as housing benefit) but after the deduction of taxes (including...
| Published: | 10 May 2016 |
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| Author(s): | Katie Evans, Ben Richards |
Media Release
Working harder but getting poorer: the economic lives of social housing tenants
People living in social housing in London getting poorer even though more of them have jobs, new research for the Peabody housing charity shows today.
| Published: | 25 June 2018 |
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Is housing benefit out of control? No, it’s the economy, stupid
...part of its recent rise is due to a housing shortage (although the high level of housing benefit – as distinct from the change – may indeed be attributable to...
| Published: | 03 April 2013 |
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Commentary
The great social housing sale: Nice idea, shame about the magpies
Yesterday’s Policy Exchange report proposing that valuable social housing be sold off to pay for more housing in cheaper areas caused a predictable furore. Opponents quickly united around the claim...
| Published: | 21 August 2012 |
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