Brexit is driving the housing market to a record low
The housing market is set to see its worst three-month period in two decades as forecasts suggest it will be driven down by Brexit uncertainty. This follows calls from homelessness …
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The one million missing homes?
The relationship between housing supply and demand is always going to be of interest to those (like us) who care about living standards and housing costs. The ONS household figures …
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The first official homeless deaths count finds 597 people died in 2017
The England and Wales figures have increased by a quarter in five years, according to the Office for National Statistics. The first official count of homeless deaths has revealed that …
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Digging the commons, man
How Thomas’ inner hippy saved the commons with a spot of help from the high-born Last week I was abruptly awakened by a loud noise. I elbowed my snoring Thomas …
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Commons Sense
Collectivism is a way forward. It’s just the “ism” that isn’t and the consensus that never shows up that somehow take things in a more tangential direction. Peter Manley maps …
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Men still clean up and other fables of fairness
Without really trying, UK policymakers have failed to close the gap between the nation’s rich and the poorest members of society. Hanna Szymborska advises. With growing outcry in academic journals, …
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Net-Zero Energy Homes Pay Off Faster Than You Think—Even in Chilly Midwest
As solar and heat pump prices fall, these highly energy-efficient homes are paying for themselves faster. Here’s how they work and why they’re spreading northward. LAMBERTVILLE, Mich.—On a drive down …
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Enough is enough
The cost of the UK’s inadequate income support is huge. Paul Nicolson writes. The UK has never been generous with its benefits system. In 2008, Tim Harford of the Financial …
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And so… to the cleaners. An invitation to lunch all gets a bit messy.
Last week I had a lunch date. This is not something I get to have much these days. One of my postgraduate students, Crispin McDonal, contacted me through my university. …
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Your house is the rotten heart of the inequality engine
The bloated value of your house(s) is an unearned windfall and a expropriation from others. Think depriving the NHS or poor kids. Yeah, that bad! I know you didn’t plan …
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