Necessary but not sufficient: Why boosting the supply of housing won’t solve the housing crisis

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, recently announced plans to release parts of London’s green belt for housing development. This announcement follows the release of the revised National Planning Policy Framework, which also aims to loosen planning restrictions to increase housing supply. In this article, IF researcher, Conor Nakkan, explains why these measures only address… Read more »

The 2025 Spending Review: Why young people deserve a better deal

The 2025 Spending Review is an opportunity to provide feedback on government spending priorities, propose new policy ideas, and influence departmental budgets and resource allocation. In this article, IF researcher Conor Nakkan, outlines IF’s submission to the Review.

Blowing the budget: IF’s new report on young people’s spending    

IF’s new report “Blowing the Budget: Why the young have to spend more than the old on Essentials” has just been published. The report’s author and IF researcher, Toby Whelton, talks us through the key findings of the report and what it tells us about the financial pressures facing young people.

Intergenerational Fairness Day: what can future generations do for us? A reflection from the Netherlands

As part of our series of articles around Intergenerational Fairness Day, Vidya Giridharan and Michael Münker, of milliongenerations.org in the Netherlands reflect on what future generations can do for us

Vindication – London Mayor Sadiq Khan admits housing crisis is “creating intergenerational inequality like we’ve never seen before”.

This admission from a leading Labour politician is an astonishing breakthrough for the Intergenerational Foundation and its campaign for intergenerational fairness. Daniel Harrison, IF supporter, economist, and author of Intergenerational Theft explains the significance of this revelation.