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The Tony Blair Institute is wrong – we do need to build more homes to solve the housing crisis

August 30, 2019

Last week’s report suggesting supply is not the answer to the housing crisis is just the latest in a series to make this claim, but it remains misleading.

Category: Housing | Tags: housing market, housing policy

Could Airbnb devastate the housing markets in key cities?

Could Airbnb devastate the housing markets in key cities?

July 3, 2019

Ten European cities are demanding action from the European Union to help them control the growth of short-term lets in their local housing markets. The fear is that providers like Airbnb could become exempt from local regulations that enable authorities to control lettings in the private rental sector, because they will be under no legal […]

Category: Housing | Tags: private rented sector, housing market | 1 Response

Raab’s use of outdated and oversimplified evidence is foolhardy

Raab’s use of outdated and oversimplified evidence is foolhardy

April 17, 2018

In response to demands that he produce the evidence for his claim that immigration is driving up house prices, the housing minister has now published the calculations. Do they back up his argument? First, it must be said that researching the drivers of house price increases is fraught with difficulty as there are so many […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: migration statistics, housing market

Raab’s claims about immigration oversimplify a complex housing problem

April 12, 2018

Dominic Raab, the housing minister, has rightly been asked to produce the evidence to back up his claim that immigration has put up house prices by 20 per cent over the past 25 years when the research suggests that immigration is just one factor pushing up housing demand and a minor one at that. The […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: migration statistics, housing market

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Developers are skimping on low-cost housing: time to get tough

March 19, 2018

The government is so scared of antagonising developers that it is failing to insist on affordable homes being built. The government has missed another opportunity to put the building of affordable housing where it belongs – at the heart of planning policy. Affordable homes that are built when developers get planning permission for a housing […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing investment, housing market, planning

Housing in Europe: How does Ireland compare?

Housing in Europe: How does Ireland compare?

September 30, 2017

Europe has become a continent of owner-occupiers. That might be the conclusion from looking at the article in this year’s UK Housing Review on the state of housing in Europe. But the real picture is more complex, revealing some interesting comparisons between Ireland and its EU neighbours. Whereas some time ago both Ireland and the […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, private rented sector, homeownership, housing market

Brexit means we have to build fewer houses... or does it?

Brexit means we have to build fewer houses… or does it?

February 24, 2017

Ahead of the launch of the UK Housing Review, CIH is running a series of blogs trailing its content. In the first of these we look at whether some of the claims made about the likely impact of Brexit on housing demand stack up. It’s a claim already made by some newspapers opposed to building […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, migration policy, housing investment, housing market | 1 Response

Brexit and the housing crisis

August 19, 2016

George Osborne, before he reinvented himself as Rambo, when he was still the ‘austerity chancellor’, committed Theresa May’s government to spending a huge sum to prop up the housing market. The combined total of grants, loans and guarantees devoted to helping developers and homebuyers is set to exceed £42 billion between now and 2020 (similar […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing investment, housing market

Poor relation

July 11, 2016

If you want to check out the government’s investment plans for housing, where do you look? Until a few years ago the details were all in one place. But new initiatives are now announced and old ones changed in every budget and spending review. And remember that in the last 15 months we’ve had four […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing market, housing finance, housing investment

Funding switch

Funding switch

November 25, 2015

Will the chancellor’s bid to halt the decline in owner-occupation work? The Autumn Statement’s extra investment for housing towards the end of this parliament is very good news. We could never hope to address our national supply crisis without government action.  But the way it will be configured means a massive boost to homeownership, apparently […]

Category: Housing | Tags: homelessness, housing finance, budget, housing investment, homeownership, housing market

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