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Commentary
Housing: a politically canny Budget
...to switch buildings from business to residential use. As the SMF showed in its Politics of Housing report, getting enough houses built is a huge political challenge. The Government’s own...
| Published: | 20 March 2014 |
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Commentary
Housing and in-work poverty: what about the now?
...housing has risen by one and half times the rate of wages. Hardly surprising then that people can’t keep up with it. Once housing costs are included, an additional 3.1...
| Published: | 12 February 2014 |
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Event
Priced out: tackling the problems of housing and in-work poverty
...be for the government to take a more strategic role in housing policy helping to resolve the UK’s chronic housing shortage. However, research shows that social housing provision tends to...
| Published: | 12 February 2014 |
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Commentary
Getting to a million homes
A million new homes in England over the course of this Parliament.
| Published: | 21 September 2015 |
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Media Release
PRESS RELEASE: New report finds 1.8 million more 25-34 year-olds locked out of the housing market since 2001
A new report from the Social Market Foundation has found that almost two million more young people have been locked out of the housing market since 2001 – and argues...
| Published: | 22 February 2016 |
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Ask the Expert: The private rented housing sector: The UK and ideas from other countries
...previously Professor of Housing at De Montfort University and a visiting Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology. He has published widely in the field of rental housing and housing...
| Published: | 03 March 2017 |
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Media Release
UK should consider ‘housing sin taxes’, inspired by Australia and Canada
‘Housing sin taxes’ – levied on vacant homes, ‘house flipping’ and foreign buyers – could be a useful source of revenue, a think tank argues today.
| Published: | 19 March 2024 |
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Commentary
Political Philosophy in a Pandemic
This blog reflects on the recent launch event for 'Political Philosophy in a Pandemic: Routes to a More Just Future', a new book by the SMF's Chief Economist, Dr Aveek Bhattacharya.
| Published: | 30 November 2021 |
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| Author: | Rhiannon Sewell |
Publication
Strong foundations: The value of regenerating social housing – and how we can pay for it
Social housing has suffered from years of underinvestment. The decline in the real value of social rents has limited the funds available to social housing providers, who have prioritised new...
| Published: | 04 August 2023 |
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| Author(s): | Shreya Nanda, John Asthana Gibson |