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Rents are going to continue rising until the government regulates them
Ask anyone on a low to middle income renting in London if rents are too high, and you’re only going to get one answer.
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.
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.
It’s time to consider introducing rent controls
"Build build build. We must build more homes." Any politician who came out with such a statement would be greeted with near universal applause. Build them and they will clap.