Series
Housing Britain
Britain has argued about housing for a century and built fewer homes in most of the last forty years than in almost any comparable period. This series takes the argument apart: the land, the permission, the money and the politics.
It is a series about mechanisms rather than villains. Most of the people in it are following the incentives they were given.
Contents
2 published, 3 planned. Planned pieces are titles only.
Why Britain stopped building homes
For twenty years after the war Britain built houses at a rate it has never come close to since. The reasons it stopped are specific, and mostly deliberate.
The land question
A conversation about the oldest argument in British politics: what happens to the value of a field when someone is allowed to build on it.
- Planned
The green belt, and what it was actually for
- Planned
Section 106, viability and the arithmetic of affordable housing
- Planned
Who owns Britain, and how we know