The government’s scheme will open to applications soon, promising to help thousands get onto the property ladder. How have similar schemes worked globally?
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The scheme is another worthy micro-measure, but a wider, cohesive housing strategy remains absent.
The government has stared down the Greens over its Help to Buy and Build to Rent housing legislation and will “wave through” the legislation in the Senate this week.
Greens leader Adam Bandt joins us to talk about the immediate impasse as well as his party's broad agenda including its demands if Labor fell into minority at the election.
For decades, social housing has been defunded and ignored. The system is now broken, and it needs to be fixed.
More homes, more homes, more homes. What about less elbow room instead?
Brexit worries have shaken the professional end of the sector, but Britain’s troubles have run far deeper for far longer.
George Osborne’s bid to boost home ownership in Britain might look like an effort to give young people a leg-up onto the housing ladder, but the evidence suggests they will be sorely disappointed.
The Office for National Statistics has issued the welcome news that UK GDP rose 0.8% from July to September this year. This is the fastest rate of increase in the past three years and is the third consecutive…
Mortgage rates for the government’s Help to Buy scheme were announced yesterday amid the usual torrent of criticism for a policy that has very few friends. One Daily Telegraph commentator deemed the policy…
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Chancellor's Fellow in Sustainable Design, University of Strathclyde
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Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Finance, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of City Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Economic Geography (Reader), Director of MSc in Real Estate Economics and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science