IEA Featured Housing and Planning

Daily Mail reports that a "rental crisis" may be on the horizon, as the number of new landlords entering the market is dwindling as tenant demand rises across the country. The piece references recent IEA report 'Taxation without Justification' which highlights the negative impact of measures designed to increase homeownership. The report's authors, Rosalind Beck ... Continue reading

IEA research reveals landlords are being unfairly blamed for the housing crisis, reports Telegraph Money. 'Taxation without Justification' calls for a major overhaul of the way buy-to-let properties are taxed as the current mean landlords are discriminated against, compared to owner-occupiers, and could face an effective tax rate of over 100% when new regulations come ... Continue reading

Kristian Niemietz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs, responds to plans by the Communities Secretary James Brokenshire to ban so-called 'no-fault evictions'. Kristian argues the news is being misreported. He writes that letting an agreement come to an end at the date it was meant to come to an end is ... Continue reading

Mark Littlewood, Director General at the Institute of Economic Affairs has written for The Times Business on the call for less private inspections of buildings following the Grenfell Tower disaster. Mark argues that far from being a Wild West, out-of-control, shoddy sector, private building inspectors have tended to produce impressive outcomes. They carry out about ... Continue reading

Co-authors of the latest IEA report on housing, Keith Boyfield and Robert Wickham, trail the content in a comment piece for City AM: "Politicians have recently become fond of talking about how to tackle our alarming housing crisis. Yet little is delivered – and what is achieved focuses on inflating demand, with schemes like Help ... Continue reading