Our housing market is – undeniably – broken. The affordability ratio (house prices to earnings) has climbed across the country, … Continue reading “Untangling the complex web of the UK housing market”

Winner of the £50,000 prize: Ben Clements For more information about the IEA Breakthrough Prize please visit www.breakthroughprize.org.uk Summary:  Free market … Continue reading “Land Purchase Act: Winning entry of the IEA Breakthrough Prize 2018”

Ben Clements, an analyst based in London, will tonight be announced as the winner of the £50,000 IEA Breakthrough Prize. … Continue reading “£50,000 IEA Breakthrough Prize awarded to entry calling for public land to be freed up for housing”

The Institute of Economic Affairs is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize. The prize – … Continue reading “IEA announces Breakthrough Prize shortlist”

What if we brought back the 1351 Statute of Labourers, and required a permit for people to live in a … Continue reading “Our terrible planning system causes untold damage to labour mobility and productivity”

Spokespeople from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) respond to the Prime Minister’s speech at Conservative Party Conference: On the speech, … Continue reading “IEA reacts to the Prime Minister’s party conference speech”

We tend to conceptualise the housing crisis in terms of affordability – and justifiably so. Over the last two decades, … Continue reading “The hidden costs of the housing crisis”

How many blind alleys will the Conservative Party’s policy advisers have to go down before they hit upon the only … Continue reading “Central planning for housing has failed. Let us give the market a try.”

One of my colleagues used to have a theory about how Britain’s housing crisis would eventually become self-limiting. It went … Continue reading “A lack of affordable housing doesn’t defy the laws of supply and demand – it proves them”