This new policy briefing highlights the role of land in the economy and its impact on the housing crisis. We provide a series of recommendations designed to put land to better public use and to start to break the housing market’s dominance over our economy.
Why the Bank of Mum and Dad is another sign of trouble in our housing market
Figures released today show that parents are set to lend more than £6.5bn this year to help their children get on the property ladder, making the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ the UK’s ninth-biggest mortgage lender. The figures are revealing: a further, troubling sign that the UK’s broken housing market is driving a wedge through society.
Brexit and the banks: Who stands to gain?
Deregulation has been disastrous for our economy. We must not do it again.
The new £1 coin: There’s more to money than physical cash
The new 12-sided £1 coin launches tomorrow – the first change to the familiar design in more than 30 years. But there's more to money than physical cash.
Financial Times review of ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’
The Financial Times' Kate Allen describes 'Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing' as "a lucid exposition of the dysfunctional British housing market."
There are Two Kinds of ‘Generation Rent’
Our financial system is hooked on the buoyancy of an unsustainable housing market. Homes routinely ‘earn’ more than people do. How did we get here? And is this actually ever going to change?
5 things Phillip Hammond forgot to mention in his Budget
Yesterday Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Here are five things he forgot to mention.
Podcast: To rebalance Britain’s economy, we must rethink land and housing economics
I discuss my new book Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing in a new podcast with openDemocracy's Adam Ramsay.
New book published: Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
My new book 'Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing' is published today by Zed Books.
New Statesman: Let’s turn RBS into a bank for the public interest
In the New Statesman I argue that a tarnished symbol of global finance could be remade as a network of local banks.
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