This week, the Centre For Cities published a report entitled The housebuilding crisis: The UK’s 4 million missing homes, written … Continue reading “Review: “The housebuilding crisis: The UK’s 4 million missing homes” by the Centre For Cities”

One of my favourite examples of a quirky regulation is the Icelandic beer ban, which lasted until March 1989. This … Continue reading “Why is the socialist Left so hostile to YIMBYism?”

IEA Head of Political Economy Kristian Niemietz has been referenced in an Investors’ Chronicle article on Britain’s bad housing policy. … Continue reading “UK must expand supply to compete with European house prices”

Mandatory housebuilding targets are going to be scrapped. This represents the final victory of NIMBYism in Britain. Thus far, housebuilding … Continue reading “Housebuilding targets: Britain becomes a NIMBYocracy”

IEA Head of Political Economy Kristian Niemietz has been quoted in The Independent responding to news that mandatory housebuilding targets … Continue reading “Scrapping of mandatory house building targets will worsen Britain’s housing shortage”

Commenting on news that mandatory house building targets will be removed from the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, Kristian Niemietz, … Continue reading “Scrapping housing targets without wider planning reform “represents another triumph of NIMBYism””

Responding to OECD forecasts that the UK economy is set to contract by 0.4% in 2023, IEA Head of Public … Continue reading “OECD forecasts provide yet more evidence that supply-side reforms are urgently needed”

IEA Chief Operating Officer and Energy Analyst Andy Mayer has been quoted in City AM on reports that the government … Continue reading “The government talks a good game on clean energy, but allows solar NIMBYism to guide its policies”

On 8 November, Ursuline Sixth Form college and The European Atlantic Movement organised the “Politics and Inequality – the true … Continue reading “Britain’s housing crisis: still the single biggest driver of poverty”