Young people know more about “real problems” than boomers like Jane Moore ever will
Apparently we should stop complaining about inequality because there might be war in Ukraine.
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“I can save, travel, go on trips with friends”: Inside the new affordable rental homes for young people
A 33-home project is fighting housing inequality as tenants question Kirstie Allsopp’s “boomer mathematics”.
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Boomer mathematics: why older generations insist that millennials are financially inept
Why can't older generations understand the millennial struggle to buy a house? They inflate the cost of young people having…
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Why Kirstie Allsopp is victim-blaming young people for a broken housing market
The market makes the wealth of the old a direct result of the insecurity of the young.
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Bringing the brownfields back to life: will the plan to level up housing work?
Digging into the data shows derelict land alone is unlikely to solve the housing crisis.
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Won’t someone think of the UK’s oppressed landlords?
Shed a tear for the forgotten victims of Covid-19.
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The British state offers socialism for wealthy homeowners and higher taxes for everyone else
Merry Christmas, peasants.
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How Covid pushed a generation out of the cities
Thirteen thousand people from the UK’s 1,000 most deprived urban local authorities migrated to the countryside over the course of…
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Inside the Modern House: the UK’s aspirational estate agency
Based on 16 years of running the design-led estate agency, Modern House co-founder Matt Gibberd speaks about his book A…
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How to crash the housing market
Would a drop in house prices be bad? And if you wanted to make it happen, how would you go…
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Who made more this year: you or your house?
Try the New Statesman’s exclusive interactive tool to find out if your house has been out-earning you.
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The pandemic has shown why landlords must now allow renters to have pets
I am repeatedly awed by the healing power of pets – everyone deserves the chance to own one.
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