Download or read book Home Truths written by Liam Halligan and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK's chronic housing shortage is lowering the quality of life for millions, turning the British dream of home ownership into a cruel nightmare – not least for 'generation rent'. Countless vulnerable families are meanwhile being deprived of access to decent social housing, causing homelessness to spiral. In this searing polemic, Liam Halligan offers radical solutions to the most urgent political issue of our times. Fully updated, with a foreword from former Chancellor Sajid Javid and drawing on extensive interviews with Cabinet ministers, civil servants, leading developers and struggling homebuyers across the country, Home Truths is a no-holds-barred critique of the UK's housing crisis.
Download or read book Solving the UK Housing Crisis written by Daniel Rossall Valentine and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has become a country divided into two nations, people who are on the property ladder and who are benefiting from property price rises, and those who are not on the ladder and fear never being able to get onto the ladder since property prices are rising faster than salaries. This second group face a lifetime living at the parental home or being at the mercy of rolling 12 month tenancies.Building more houses, despite being the solution most widely touted, is not the answer to the UK's housing crisis. In the face of demand from both domestic and overseas investors who see housing as a safe haven for their money, building more houses will have no downward effect on prices. The author proposes a radical package of policy measures that will eliminate the artificial inflation of house prices which has occurred over the last twenty years. These policy measures, if enacted, will reunite the UK, by enabling young British people once again to realistically aspire to own their own homes.Politicians and commentators in the UK have shown a lack of ideas in relation to solving this crisis. Media understanding and analysis of economic and fiscal matters in the UK is very weak, and highly dependent on the press releases of Government and industry bodies. The UK's powerful housing lobby has stepped into this intellectual vacuum by promoting house-building as the solution. However, this report demonstrates that new houses cannot be the primary solution to this immense problem. It is pure fantasy to think that the global demand for British houses can ever be met. Every town and village in the South of England would be ruined by millions of under-sized and under-quality flats and houses before demand was close to being met from the world's 15 million strong financial elite, and house prices would still keep on rising. The solution to the UK's housing crisis lies not in the creation of new housing stock but in changing the usage patterns of existing stock.This report urges that measures are taken to limit the investment demand for houses. It is investment demand (not the commonly mentioned "shortage of new houses") that has corrupted the housing market in many areas and pushed average house prices out of the reach of average citizens. The solution to the housing crisis is similar to the solution to the banking crisis of 2007/8. Just as consumers had been damaged because banks had failed to separate high-street banking from an increasingly aggressive and dominant investment banking operation that was driven by an excess of elite money, so the UK housing market needs separating from a global investment market. Since housing has become an investment market, it should be regulated closely like other investment markets. The process of market separation is neither complex nor expensive and it will once again allow British citizens to own a share of their own nation. This report focuses on the international aspect of this problem, the issue of foreign buyers, since their role in price inflation is both substantial and relatively simple to restrict.
Download or read book What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Housing written by Rowland Atkinson and published by What Do We Know and What Should We Do About. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing? Is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues often misrepresented or simplified in the mainstream media. In this book, Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs, established analysts of housing policy, claim that what we think we know about the housing crisis is wrong, and encourage readers to see the housing crisis as a result of the 'property machine' - a constellation of interests, actors and institutions made up of banks and developers, landlords, speculative investors, the majority of homeowners and real estate agencies. By taking aim at the 'property machine' and its opposition to the social and everyday needs of the majority of the population, the authors analyse some of the key social and economic forces and the broad range of policies that have shaped and responded to Britain's housing crisis. Exposing the roots of key current problems such as homelessness, the lack of affordable housing, and insecurity in the private rental sector, and linking them to the choices made by successive governments to prioritise the interests of capital above social need. The authors conclude with a series of innovative proposals that they believe would help alleviate the UK's housing crisis; improving conditions and tackling the inequalities that are so starkly expressed in relation to personal housing wealth. Allowing for the establishment of a fairer and more equal society and a more stable economic future. Series Editor: Professor Chris Grey, Royal Holloway, University of London
Download or read book Home Truths written by Liam Halligan and published by Biteback Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Housing Crisis written by Peter Malpass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book How to Solve the Housing Crisis written by Chris Rowland Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains a solution to the housing crisis. Overlooked in the past due to misuse but now with proper controls it can produce 450,000 homes each year, cost nothing and produce 50 billion over five years for the Treasury.
Download or read book The Treatise Of The Housing Market written by Bobbye Krudop and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying a house is off-limits to many thanks to rising rents, pay freezes, and a lack of affordable homes. But it hasn't always been this way. What went wrong? The book is an easily readable work on the UK Housing Crisis, the biggest domestic issue in our country today. Few other books on UK current affairs have more relevance in a post-Brexit society, on the biggest issue that successive governments have done nothing about for 40 years. For the price of a new plastic Fiver, you can find out why the under-40s cannot afford anything but basic Shelter, if at all, and why the older generations have spent their lives chasing ever-rising house prices. At times Amusing, at other times Sobering, this is more than analysis or an opinion. There is a wider debate on how we want to live our lives and what the Housing Crisis has done to our Freedom. This gives the options available to our society to truly reform the Housing Market and to ensure that this situation never happens again in our society. It argues for a Popular Movement to force Reform on the Government. This could be bigger than Brexit. The Rigged Housing Market.
Download or read book Broken Homes written by Peter Bill and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is ‘no place like home’ sighs Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. A sentiment with heightened meaning in Britain 2020. There is no book like Broken Homes either.
Download or read book Raising the Roof How to Solve the United Kingdom s Housing Crisis written by Jacob Rees-Mogg and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era – the UK’s housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on the planet, with London virtually the most expensive major city in the world for renting or buying a home. At the core of this is one of the most centralised planning systems in the democratic world – a system that plainly doesn’t work. A system that has resulted in too few houses, which are too small, which people do not like and which are in the wrong places, a system that stifles movement and breeds Nimbyism. The IEA’s 2018 Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize, with a first prize of £50,000, sought free-market solutions to this complex and divisive problem. Here, Breakthrough Prize judge Jacob Rees-Mogg and IEA Senior Research Analyst Radomir Tylecote critique a complex system of planning and taxation that has signally failed to provide homes, preserve an attractive environment and enhance our cities. They then draw from the winning entries to the Breakthrough Prize, and previous IEA research, to put forward a series of radical and innovative measures – from releasing vast swathes of government-owned land to relaxing the suffocating grip of the green belt. Together with cutting and devolving tax, and reforms to allow cities to both densify and beautify, this would create many more homes and help restore property-owning democracy in the UK.
Download or read book Challenges of the Housing Economy written by Colin Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book addresses key challenges faced by policy makers and the house-building industry in a post-credit crunch world. It examines the implications for households, the housing market, the economy, as well as for government's policy choices. Challenges of the Housing Economy: an international perspective brings together experts from around the world to examine recent housing market trends. The contributions reveal common long-term trends in housing markets worldwide. Despite differences in supply conditions and the role of planning, there is a trend toward rising house prices that has created significant barriers to home ownership for young households while increasing the wealth of older generations. The financial crisis had a differential impact on housing markets but in many countries where mortgage finance became severely constrained, house prices fell and there was a dramatic fall in housing construction. The falls in house prices in these countries have ostensibly improved affordability but the housing markets have been dominated by the lowering of loan to values applicable to new mortgages which has further raised the hurdles to potential first-time purchasers. At the same time as young households are increasingly rationed out of owner-occupation, public sector expenditure cut-backs in many countries result in limited new social housing. Instead, value for money imperatives will mean new funding models for affordable housing that require greater use of public-private partnerships. The private rented sector could potentially meet the demand for the new generation of long-term renters. However, there are doubts - in the UK at least - that this sector will be able to expand significantly or provide an appropriate type and standard of housing. This is an essential advanced text for students and researchers of land economy and land management; property and real estate; housing policy; and urban studies.
Download or read book Whose Housing Crisis written by Gallent, Nick and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing’s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of ‘growth’ for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track.
Download or read book Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis written by Bowie, Duncan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK governments. From Blair’s New Labour and Cameron’s Coalition government to the 2016 Housing and Planning Act, Bowie demonstrates how successive governments have failed to provide adequate, affordable housing, leading to a chronic lack of provision. Exploring the inter-relationship between housing, planning and land policies, Bowie puts forward a reform programme based on an alternative set of policy priorities and delivery mechanisms, arguing the case for an integrated approach on land, taxation, planning and public investment to provide radical solutions to a growing crisis.
Download or read book Raising the Roof written by Jacob Rees-Mogg and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The UK Housing Crisis written by Gilma Delgadillo and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying a house is off-limits to many thanks to rising rents, pay freezes, and a lack of affordable homes. But it hasn't always been this way. What went wrong? The book is an easily readable work on the UK Housing Crisis, the biggest domestic issue in our country today. Few other books on UK current affairs have more relevance in a post-Brexit society, on the biggest issue that successive governments have done nothing about for 40 years. For the price of a new plastic Fiver, you can find out why the under-40s cannot afford anything but basic Shelter, if at all, and why the older generations have spent their lives chasing ever-rising house prices. At times Amusing, at other times Sobering, this is more than analysis or an opinion. There is a wider debate on how we want to live our lives and what the Housing Crisis has done to our Freedom. This gives the options available to our society to truly reform the Housing Market and to ensure that this situation never happens again in our society. It argues for a Popular Movement to force Reform on the Government. This could be bigger than Brexit. The Rigged Housing Market.
Download or read book UK Housing Crisis written by Jami Alken and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying a house is off-limits to many thanks to rising rents, pay freezes, and a lack of affordable homes. But it hasn't always been this way. What went wrong? The book is an easily readable work on the UK Housing Crisis, the biggest domestic issue in our country today. Few other books on UK current affairs have more relevance in a post-Brexit society, on the biggest issue that successive governments have done nothing about for 40 years. For the price of a new plastic Fiver, you can find out why the under-40s cannot afford anything but basic Shelter, if at all, and why the older generations have spent their lives chasing ever-rising house prices. At times Amusing, at other times Sobering, this is more than analysis or an opinion. There is a wider debate on how we want to live our lives and what the Housing Crisis has done to our Freedom. This gives the options available to our society to truly reform the Housing Market and to ensure that this situation never happens again in our society. It argues for a Popular Movement to force Reform on the Government. This could be bigger than Brexit. The Rigged Housing Market.
Download or read book Against Landlords written by Nick Bano and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done? Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year, and nearly 20 per cent of tenants live in hazardous conditions. Homelessness is at a new high. Yet the government’s only solution is to promote homeownership. Against Landlords shows that this crisis is not the product of happenstance or political incompetence. Government policy has intentionally split British citizens into homeowners and renters, two classes set on very different financial paths. In the UK, one out of every twenty-one adults is a landlord, and it is this group, and those who aspire to join it, represented by the political class. In his radical new interpretation of the housing crisis, lawyer Nick Bano explains how this environment set the conditions for the Grenfell Tower fire and how it means a life of anxiety for the nation’s renters. It is a problem that stretches far beyond London and one inherently racist in nature. Building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law, Bano argues, and reforms must sweep away the landlordism at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life.
Download or read book Solving the Housing Crisis written by J. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
