Boomers can’t believe their luck – so they claim it was all hard work
At last, a perfect summation of the view that blames young people for their struggles rather than decades of policy…
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Could a house price crash tame the UK’s depraved rental market?
What renters really need is more housing supply and more stability.
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Decoding the UK’s economic crisis
What do Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng really want? To maintain Britain’s standing as a rentier's paradise – and they…
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Making the UK a nation of savers
The cost-of-living crisis hits harder for those without emergency savings.
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Why the housing market is about to crash
The existence of the 50-year mortgage shows lenders are desperate.
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How the rise of buy-to-let landlords fuelled the housing crisis
First-time buyers have been priced out of the housing market by wealthier people.
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The building that remade London
One Hyde Park was meant to represent hope after recession almost ruined Britain’s property market. Its legacy is far more…
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This will be the tenth time I have moved in my adult life
It seems I can’t keep pace with “the market” and so I must up sticks and go.
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Britons want more houses built – even nearby
An exclusive poll shows that more people are recognising a housing crisis, and support action to address it.
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To fix England’s housing crisis, scrap Right to Buy
The government is more interested in headlines than housing reform.
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From the NS archive: The twenty-year wait
19 December 1980: Britain will soon be well on the way to recreating the slum housing problems of the Forties.
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How the UK has failed to build enough houses for decades
It is estimated that the amount of social housing completed each year needs to more than double.
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Don’t mess with mortgages – just build more houses
Boris Johnson's speech today added another item to the long list of policies that have done nothing to address the…
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Boris Johnson’s futile policy announcement is no answer to the housing crisis
Trapped in a cycle of repeat failed solutions, the government resurrects policy from the past.
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It’s time for renters to rise up
If the government won’t help us to buy, let’s take on landlords together.
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Forget Right to Buy, what about Right to Rent? The UK’s rent crisis is a political choice
An ideological devotion to home ownership has created a situation in which the most vulnerable consumers are the most exposed…
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Why levelling up the UK’s council homes has to involve the capital
London has the highest proportion of non-decent council houses in the country.
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The Tories have fallen into a housing black hole of their own making
Tories find they can do nothing to improve the lot of those voters who don’t have housing wealth, for fear…
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The resurrection of Right to Buy shows the Tories’ poverty of ideas
The latest version of an already failed housing crisis policy is a frantic attempt to get good press before the…
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Britain has fallen out of love with its housing market
Long-held assumptions about rising house prices are being shattered by the affordability crisis.
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