Duncan Stott, director of the affordable house price campaign PricedOut, explains what “affordable” should mean, how it simply does not apply to the current housing market – and what can be done about it
Category: Housing
HOUSING BLOG WEEK. Tim Lund: A Housing Peace Conference
Housing activist and IF supporter Tim Lund imagines a conference that settles housing issues in the best interests of young and future generations
HOUSING BLOG WEEK. Kristian Niemietz: Unaffordable housing: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
Dr Kristian Niemietz, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), shows how and why the UK’s exceptionally high housing costs are a catalyst for poverty, and all that this entails
HOUSING BLOG WEEK. Nigel Wilson: Housing That Works For All Generations
Nigel Wilson, CEO of Legal & General, analyses the sticking points in the current housing market, and puts forward a refreshingly concrete plan to rectify them – by helping older generations to “rightsize”
HOUSING BLOG WEEK. Toby Lloyd: “Where will my grandchildren live?” Prospects for intergenerational solidarity
Toby Lloyd, head of policy at the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, points to a real crisis in housing for the young, but warns against characterising it as an intergenerational war: older generations want solutions too
HOUSING BLOG WEEK. Danny Dorling: The Generations and Housing Chaos
In an edited extract from the paperback edition of his book All that is Solid (published February 2015), Danny Dorling explains why he thinks UK housing is in a state of chaos, with worse to come
HOUSING BLOG WEEK. Angus Hanton: Housing and Intergenerational Fairness
Angus Hanton, co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation, sets the scene for our Housing Blog Week (9–13 March) and explains why housing is such an urgent and topical intergenerational issue
Government launches new “Starter Homes” scheme – but will it really help first-time buyers?
David Kingman provides an overview of the Government’s latest attempt to help first-time buyers get on the housing ladder
Can Europe Do Better?
Liz Emerson reports on a European study that aims to give young British people a voice on the future of Europe
New lending rules look set to make things even more difficult for first-time buyers
David Kingman reports on the tighter restrictions to loan-to-income multiples which most lenders are now operating, and explains how this puts another barrier to homeownership in the path of first-time buyers