Claire Lamont describes the woes of renting accommodation in London when landlords have the whip hand in an ever tighter property market
Category: Housing
ONS figures reveal the “Boomerang Generation” is now 3 million strong
David Kingman examines why so many people in their 20s and 30s are stuck living at home with their parents
How retirement villages can help young people too
David Kingman explains how retirement villages could help young people get on the property ladder
There was an Old Lady Who Lived In a Large Shoe (just not with her family)
Liz Emerson shows the appeal of “intergenerational living” as a solution to the housing crisis
Blocked and in debt: the cry of youth
Youth worker Melissa Jane Knight gives an impassioned account of the dire prospects facing her generation. And she is one of “lucky ones” who stuck with education. The key to more equitable solutions lies in better targeted government policy.
Could a land value tax ease the housing crisis?
Heather Wetzel, Vice Chair of the Labour Land Campaign, responds to the recent IF housing report, and makes the case for a land value tax
The perils of prolonging adolescence
David Kingman explores whether people find it harder to grow up today than they used to
Private pensions and the hoarding of housing: A vicious circle
David Kingman explores the interaction between poor returns on private pensions and intergenerational unfairness in the housing market
“Lucky Generation”? How the baby boomers have prospered
Angus Hanton asks if the baby boomers owe their success more to fortune than design – and if their prosperity has created an intergenerational deficit.
Intergenerational sharing of housing
Angus Hanton suggests that the older generation needs official encouragement to downsize David Willetts recently praised Homeshare International for a project they operate to encourage older people in large houses to lend rooms in their houses to younger people in exchange for help in looking after the house or them (or the garden). Whilst this… Read more »