Tag Archives: housing

A new briefing from the Social Market Foundation – authored by John Handley (See notes) – shows that 21% of Brits’ spending goes towards housing, as opposed to 17% for...

1 in 25 houses are part of a heat network, getting energy from a single source shared with several other buildings. Such arrangements are particularly common in social housing, where...

The report argues that the current system creates ‘gridlock’ because it gives too much power to planning authorities, and offers too little opportunity for neighbours  to find ‘win-win’ solutions that...

The first Peabody Index, compiled by the Social Market Foundation, shows that despite falling rents, tenants in social housing in the capital saw their annual income fall by almost £400...

Former minister urges short-term and longer-term spending on infrastructure post-Brexit in new paper.

Workers living in social housing face a ‘pay penalty’ compared to those in other types of accommodation, a new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF), supported by Circle Housing, reveals.

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 that property crowdfunding offers a way to help more people onto the housing ladder, while also providing much needed investment in housebuilding.

A new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF), released on Tuesday, reveals the changing nature of inheritance in the UK and how patterns of financial and non-financial support across generations of families have evolved as we live longer.

A new Social Market Foundation report entitled Should switch, don’t switch: Overcoming consumer inertia, supported by comparethemarket.com, launches at the Conservative party conference on Monday.