For the first time in 73 years, we have witnessed a King’s Speech written by a Labour Government. Like Clement Attlee’s Government back then, Keir Starmer’s administration sees itself as picking up the pieces of a broken country. Attlee’s challenge was the housing shortage caused by the Second World War’s impact on construction for seven […]
One of the early winners in this election campaign has been the Yimby (Yes In My Backyard) movement, which advocates for more building to solve the housing crisis. Advocates for Yimbyism have succeeded in part because the housing crisis has become so severe that it forced its way into the national conversation. But another reason […]
Write anything about housing and you’ll usually be hit with a classic non-gotcha: ‘What about empty homes?’. What about those supposed millions of properties that lie unused? Surely all we need is to allocate those homes and our housing woes will go away. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the argument is nonsense. In 2020 there were an estimated […]
