We need less corporate socialism for private sector landlords
The UK housing debate is increasingly focused on who the housing system serves: the nation’s needs or vested interests that seek to preserve tenure-based wealth inequalities.
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The Immigration Bill does little to solve the real housing issues
This week the government launched a consultation into their proposal to require private landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants.
Private landlords colonising housing market, preventing first time buying
Private landlords are out bidding first-time buyers and pushing house prices out of the reach of many young people, according to a new report.
We can’t just build our way out of this housing crisis
Do you want to wait thirty years until house prices are at affordable levels again? I doubt many priced out renters in the capital would be happy to put up with the status quo for that long, but that could be the prospect if we just rely on building more homes to solve the housing crisis.
A challenge to ‘In the Black Labour’: Housing benefit will continue to rise unless we tackle the buy-to-let market
In a follow-up to their 2011 report In the Black Labour, Graeme Cooke, Adam Lent, Anthony Painter and Hopi Sen reaffirm their commitment to fiscal conservatism.
What’s to stop landlords passing the cost of immigration checks on to already squeezed tenants?
For the sake of appeasing a handful of Tory backbenchers and shoring up the UKIP vote, the government may have just heaped another burden on already hard-pressed tenants.
Private rents in London outstrip inflation
Private rents in London are outstripping inflation, new figures reveal.
The inequality at the heart of the housing crisis
A new study by the LSE highlights systemic inequality in the housing crisis.
Landlords are the real winners from Huhne’s ‘Green Deal’ speech
Whilst others are busy comparing competing views on the coalition’s environmental record after Chris Huhne’s speech on the Green Deal at the LSE on Tuesday, all the papers – The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian – seemed to miss a significant aspect of the story behind the climate change and energy secretary’s speech.