Housing

Don’t forget the last-time buyers

13 May 2013 | Bruce Moore

Most discussion about kick-starting housing focuses on first-time buyers. But local authorities could do much more to help older people live in homes that are suitable for their needs later in life Read more

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Household debt: the ticking timebomb

2 May 2013 | Matthew Whittaker

Today’s bad news on mortgages indicates that the household debt timebomb never went away. Could the chancellor’s Help to Buy scheme be about to make matters worse? Read more

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The back-story to flat GDP

25 April 2013 | Tim Morgan

Britain has avoided a triple-dip recession but its economy is flat-lining. This is neither good enough to restore prosperity nor bad enough to provoke a restructuring of the economy Read more

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Green Deal: the heat is on

23 April 2013 | Jim McClelland

After a slow start, the Green Deal is proving a popular way for the government to attempt to reduce carbon emissions and for residents to lower their energy bills. But there’s also a major role for councils to help turn the temperature up on the scheme Read more

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Home truths about the Bonus

3 April 2013 | Nick Raynsford

The Budget announced a range of measures to boost home ownership. But the underlying problem is a shocking fall in house building by councils, something the coalition’s 
New Homes Bonus has singularly failed to address Read more

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Missing the point on migrants and housing

27 March 2013 | John Perry

David Cameron’s plans to curtail migrants’ rights to social housing have the appearance of being thought up quickly and not thought through properly. There are much better ways to increase the availability of homes to UK-born applicants Read more...

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Stimulus solution: too good to be true

25 March 2013 | Tim Morgan

Many commentators are arguing that Plan A hasn’t worked and the government should increase borrowing in the short term to help boost the economy. But this would be a dangerous and self-defeating move Read more

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Bad arguments on borrowing

15 March 2013 | John Perry

The Prime Minister’s aversion to extra borrowing is coming under sustained attack. There is now a strong argument to increase spending in next week’s Budget in order to build more houses and boost the economy Read more

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What happened to the property-owning democracy?

4 March 2013 | John Perry

Home ownership among young adults is declining fast as an unwilling ‘generation rent’ takes over.  But could the government be doing more to help? Read more...

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