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.
Housing Britain · Part 1
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Planning
The permission system that decides what can be built and where.
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.
Housing Britain · Part 2
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Why a house costs what it costs
Start with the shortage and you end up at land value and council finance.