The US and UK both face a housing crisis. But while US policy has stalled, the UK has just enacted major protections for renters.
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Lack of public transport and limited availability of schools, childcare facilities or GP surgeries are making life harder in new developments.
Young women are heavily targeted by sex-for-rent arrangements, and so are economically marginalised men.
Talk of ‘grey belts’ and new towns avoids the key issue.
Many members of the armed forces have not considered what housing they might need, or how to pay for it, once they leave the service.
Targeted development, as the new UK government proposes, could be the best route forward
The current Conservative government has not met actual housing need in England. The proposals in the party’s manifesto are not likely to either.
Small towns and villages have become places of both abundant investment wealth and social poverty.
Rural planning authorities largely operate according to the rationale that housing and service needs can more effectively be met in towns than in the countryside.
The film is run through with an unflinching belief in the power communities wield and the tangible limits they face.
The UK government aims to enforce beauty through the planning system’s design codes. But intangible qualities like beauty are best achieved by challenging architects – not constraining them.
The public might love the idea of rent control but economists warn that without better policy – and more construction – it cannot fix the housing crisis.
A senior coroner in Rochdale has said of the toddler’s death that it should be a defining moment for social housing in the UK. Experts point out that we have been here before.
New statistical analysis shows that ethnicity, migration background and discrimination increase a person’s risk of homelessness.
Top contributors
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Professor of Housing and Planning, The Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Urban Studies, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Head of School of History Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University
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Reader, Department of Architecture & Visual Arts , School of Architecture Computing and Engineering, University of East London
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Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
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Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Bristol
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance, UCL
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Senior lecturer, social policy, University of York
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Professor of Economics, The Open University
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Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University