What Labour gets wrong about Right to Buy
The policy is a drain on council resources and a gift to the private rental market.
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Why Rachel Reeves should crash the housing market
It might take ten years and a lot of shouting, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.
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The property rental market is a hellscape
In a landlord’s market, with intense competition from fellow renters, you’re damned whatever you do.
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The housing crisis will not go away
People’s inability to afford homes did for the Conservatives and it could do the same for Labour.
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What happened to the housing crash?
The real value of homes in the UK has dropped significantly and a long-term decay in value appears to be…
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The housing crisis is inescapable
It's one of the UK’s biggest policy problems, with knock-on effects on everything from productivity to pensions and the demographic…
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It’s the housing market, stupid
The cost-of-living crisis hinges on one problem, and Jeremy Hunt’s 99 per cent mortgages can’t disguise that fact.
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Buyers who take up the offer may well find themselves stuck with higher repayments – and unable to switch to…
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The housing crisis outrage machine
The UK press has only one solution for the broken rental market: clickbait.
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Why Michael Gove’s planning reforms won’t deliver sustainable housing
The Housing Secretary’s new planning framework for England does little to encourage net zero development.
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Leasehold is the ultimate symbol of our broken economic model
To challenge rentier capitalism, the next Labour government should end the great leasehold con.
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Housing benefits still won’t keep up with skyrocketing rents
Despite what Jeremy Hunt said in his Autumn Statement, reforms to the Local Housing Allowance don’t go anywhere near far…
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Four out of five landlords want higher energy efficiency standards, polling shows
Research from the Social Market Foundation suggests there is little support for the government’s backtracking on energy performance upgrades.
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Mortgages are approaching a new cliff edge
Why Jeremy Hunt can’t stop the housing crash.
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The housing battle of Hastings
A perfect storm is engulfing the East Sussex seaside town – and dozens of other councils facing bankruptcy.
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The UK housing crash is just beginning
For the first time since 2007, the returns on a typical new buy-to-let property have entered negative territory.
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Why isn’t Keir Starmer afraid of building on the green belt?
Shifts in voting patterns mean that building rather than blocking housing is now in Labour’s electoral interests.
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Here’s how to tackle Britain’s housing crisis
Without investment in social housing, waiting lists grow – as will the number of people trapped in hotels, hostels and…
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Why you should be nice to Nimbys
Blind hatred never built a house.
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The real reason Britain can’t build anything
From HS2 to housing shortages, we forget that two-thirds of the British population live on a quarter of the land.
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