…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)”

…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)”

I recently reviewed a book on this blog which I had first read a quarter-century earlier: Globalisierung by Helmut Schmidt, … Continue reading “Classics revisited: “NIMBYism: The Disease And The Cure” by Richard Ehrman (1990)”

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”

…continued from Part 1   What’s Behind NIMBYism? A lot of it is, as I’ve suggested, a natural resistance to … Continue reading “Housing: the case for YIMBY (Yes, In My Back Yard!) (Part 2)”

Housing costs in the UK – both house prices and rents – are among the highest in the world. Since … Continue reading “To solve the housing crisis, we must take on NIMBYs and abolish the greenbelt”

The greenbelt is a sacred cow, right? Everybody loves the greenbelt, everybody wants to see it protected, and everybody knows … Continue reading “Why greenbelt reform is not a lost cause”

Economists are a notoriously quarrelsome bunch, who disagree on almost everything. Ask three economists, and you’ll get four opinions. The … Continue reading “Unaffordable housing: Causes, consequences and solutions”