All hail the Mayor of San Diego! Earlier this week, Californian lawmaker Kevin Faulconer outlined an ambitious overhaul of the city’s … Continue reading “All hail the Mayor of San Diego!”

The housing crisis is Britain’s most urgent economic and social problem. This is not exactly news, but until serious steps … Continue reading “Increasing the supply of housing requires less government intervention – not more”

On November 22, the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) held a debate on the motion “This house believes that … Continue reading “Can tackling the housing crisis be left to the market?”

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”

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”

Last year’s Conservative party conference marked a change in tone for the Prime Minister and her relationship with the free … Continue reading “It’s time the Conservatives matched free market rhetoric to policies”

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”

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”

As the government creaks alarmingly under the weight of Brexit, it may seem odd – if not downright contrarian – … Continue reading “The housing crisis is pushing Brits towards the spectre of 1970s socialism”