From the NS archive: The twenty-year wait
19 December 1980: Britain will soon be well on the way to recreating the slum housing problems of the Forties.
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Navigate the complex landscape of the UK housing market with our comprehensive collection of articles including long-read features and in-depth analysis.
How the UK has failed to build enough houses for decades
It is estimated that the amount of social housing completed each year needs to more than double.
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Don’t mess with mortgages – just build more houses
Boris Johnson’s speech today added another item to the long list of policies that have done nothing to address the…
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Boris Johnson’s futile policy announcement is no answer to the housing crisis
Trapped in a cycle of repeat failed solutions, the government resurrects policy from the past.
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It’s time for renters to rise up
If the government won’t help us to buy, let’s take on landlords together.
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Forget Right to Buy, what about Right to Rent? The UK’s rent crisis is a political choice
An ideological devotion to home ownership has created a situation in which the most vulnerable consumers are the most exposed…
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Why levelling up the UK’s council homes has to involve the capital
London has the highest proportion of non-decent council houses in the country.
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The Tories have fallen into a housing black hole of their own making
Tories find they can do nothing to improve the lot of those voters who don’t have housing wealth, for fear…
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The resurrection of Right to Buy shows the Tories’ poverty of ideas
The latest version of an already failed housing crisis policy is a frantic attempt to get good press before the…
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Britain has fallen out of love with its housing market
Long-held assumptions about rising house prices are being shattered by the affordability crisis.
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Young people know more about “real problems” than boomers like Jane Moore ever will
Apparently we should stop complaining about inequality because there might be war in Ukraine.
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“I can save, travel, go on trips with friends”: Inside the new affordable rental homes for young people
A 33-home project is fighting housing inequality as tenants question Kirstie Allsopp’s “boomer mathematics”.
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Boomer mathematics: why older generations insist that millennials are financially inept
Why can’t older generations understand the millennial struggle to buy a house? They inflate the cost of young people having…
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Why Kirstie Allsopp is victim-blaming young people for a broken housing market
The market makes the wealth of the old a direct result of the insecurity of the young.
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Bringing the brownfields back to life: will the plan to level up housing work?
Digging into the data shows derelict land alone is unlikely to solve the housing crisis.
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Won’t someone think of the UK’s oppressed landlords?
Shed a tear for the forgotten victims of Covid-19.
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The British state offers socialism for wealthy homeowners and higher taxes for everyone else
Merry Christmas, peasants.
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How Covid pushed a generation out of the cities
Thirteen thousand people from the UK’s 1,000 most deprived urban local authorities migrated to the countryside over the course of…
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Inside the Modern House: the UK’s aspirational estate agency
Based on 16 years of running the design-led estate agency, Modern House co-founder Matt Gibberd speaks about his book A…
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How to crash the housing market
Would a drop in house prices be bad? And if you wanted to make it happen, how would you go…
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