Boosting housing supply
[Originally posted on Liberal Democrat Voice, 05/10/11] The Conservatives’ proposal to resuscitate the Right to Buy through increasing discounts appears to be an attempt to bask in some of Mrs...
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Will it take more than fixing the planning system to improve housing supply?
[Originally posted on Liberal Democrat Voice, 18/11/11, under a slightly different title] It is a truth universally acknowledged that Britain has a housing problem. There are problems of shortage and,...
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Chaos in all directions
What do we want from a government? Not in terms of the substance of policy but in the way it goes about its business. At a minimum we might reasonably expect competence. And we’d want it to play by the...
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Planning, it’s always planning …
On Wednesday the Institute of Economic Affairs discussion paper Abundance of land, shortage of housing, by Kristian Niemietz, was launched on to an unsuspecting world. The timing of this launch is...
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