When Harold Macmillan was Housing Minister in Churchill’s post-war administration, over 300,000 houses were built in a single year, a … Continue reading “Office conversion: an opportunity to boost the supply of urban residential housing”

Commenting on the King’s Speech, Mark Littlewood, Director General of the free market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs, … Continue reading “King’s Speech ‘heavy on intervention, light on liberalisation’”

IEA Head of Political Economy Kristian Niemietz has written for CapX, reviewing No Room! No Room! The Costs of the … Continue reading “The housing crisis drags on”

I am not going to claim that Prof Alan Evans’s book No Room! No Room! The Costs of the British … Continue reading “Classics revisited: “No Room! No Room!” by Alan Evans (1988)”

…continued from Part 2   Quite often when a new subject comes along, people quickly pick sides, and sort themselves … Continue reading “YIMBYism: A Primer (Part 3)”

IEA Head of Political Economy Kristian Niemietz has written in the Spectator discussing why the Renters’ Reform Bill will not … Continue reading “The Renters’ Reform Bill is a distraction from low housing supply”

…continued from Part 1   I finished university before the “Great Awokening”, at a time when “Cancel Culture” and “No-Platforming” … Continue reading “YIMBYism: A Primer (Part 2)”

The other day, a BBC interviewer asked the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, whether he was a “YIMBY” … Continue reading “YIMBYism: A Primer (Part 1)”

IEA Communications Officer Reem Ibrahim has written in CapX discussing how the UK’s planning and welfare policies have caused lopsided … Continue reading “The UK’s political economy is rigged against the young”