As part of its special Summer Budget, the Government has announced that it will introduce reforms to the taxation of buy-to-let property which are very similar to ones proposed by IF. David Kingman reports
Category: Housing
July Budget: Government announces further planning reforms in attempt to boost house building
As part of its Summer Budget policy announcements, the Conservative Government has proposed another round of planning reforms in order to try to increase house building. David Kingman asks: How likely are they to succeed?
Young people are becoming housing “exiles”, warns Government minister
David Kingman comments on the recent speech by Greg Clark in which he warned that housing costs are pushing young people out of the areas which they call home
New data demonstrates the impact of housing costs on poverty rates for different age groups
David Kingman reports on the release of the latest data on Households Below Average Incomes (HBAI), which shows how housing costs affect different age groups differently
Bricking it – starting a family without a foundation
Contributing to our occasional “Vox Pop” series, Melissa Jane Knight talks housing and how the rhetoric of a government claiming to support “hard-working families” falls on deaf ears when young families are locked out of affordable home-ownership and forced into cramped, expensive rentals
Unwinding the Housing Crisis: Peak unaffordability and after
In the first of a projected series of related blogs, IF supporter Tim Lund asks what will happen when people see that housing can’t stay this unaffordable for ever
Think tank calls for radical reform of council tax
David Kingman explores the recent proposal from the think tank CentreForum to make the property tax system fairer by radically reforming Council Tax, instead of bringing in a new “Mansion Tax”
New report confirms a deep generational divide over wealth and asset ownership
David Kingman examines the latest research into the distribution of wealth and asset ownership in the UK, which shows a growing intergenerational divide between young people and older households
Will extending the Right to Buy help deal with the UK’s housing crisis?
David Kingman looks at one of the key proposals on housing from the Conservative election manifesto
Who should Young People Vote for this Week? The Greens?
Liz Emerson, IF Co-Founder, analyses the manifestos using the lens of intergenerational fairness in the run-up to the May General Election. Today she inspects The Greens