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YIMBY wins around the world (September 2024)
US reform successes Recent research shows that 50 housing bills passed US state legislatures in the first half of 2024, compared to only 30 in the same time last year. In the preceding twelve months, 65 housing supply bills have been enacted. You can read more...
New Report: the Urgent Need to Build More Homes
UK housing is at a crisis point. Skyrocketing costs, inadequate supply, and misaligned incentives have created a perfect storm that impacts every aspect of our society - from individual aspiration to national economic growth. The Government has won a landslide...
Location matters: price per square metre in England and Wales
It’s obvious that the price of a home varies massively from place to place, but simply comparing the average cost of properties sold can hide some major differences - particularly in the size of each home. The average cost of a home in London is £520,000 whilst in the...
YIMBY wins around the world
With a new Government that is extremely focused on building more homes, it seems a good time to revive our regular update on YIMBY successes around the world, from New Zealand to California. ADUs Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are small, normally single storey, homes...
Fast wins for more homes: how Labour can champion infill development
Kane Emerson writing in Red Brick Blog The housing crisis remains one of the most pressing issues facing Britain today. With homebuilding at crisis levels, numbers of households in temporary accommodation rising, and young people struggling to get on the property...
The promise of New Towns
Kane Emerson writing in Red Brick Blog A new generation of New Towns – tree-lined and with character rooted in local history! Angela Rayner outlined Labour’s ambitions at a UK housing conference in Leeds yesterday. The announcement adds more detail to the...
The Power of Proactive Estate Renewal
This piece was first published in the Fabian member policy group report "Homes for London" Introduction The Labour Party has a proud history of building council homes. A century ago, during Labour’s first Government under Ramsay MacDonald, housing defined Labour’s...
Mansards on the up
By Alfie Robinson What is a mansard? A mansard takes a normal roof, and stretches it upwards to create liveable space. Where a normal roof has little more than trusses, cobwebs, and perhaps some insulation, a mansard tucks away bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms....
East-West Rail: new New Towns
‘Then, as the millennium was dawning, a miracle happened. The government returned every penny that I had paid in taxes over the previous 40 years. So for four decades I had lived tax free – and I had not dodged the taxman! How was this possible? I ‘confessed’ in...
Going denser: density and the climate
Britain faces a severe housing crisis in our major cities. From London to Edinburgh, a lack of new homes have driven up rents and house prices to extreme levels. This not only causes immense damage to the environment, human welfare, jobs, growth and public services,...