In 2021/22, just 7,528 new social homes were delivered. That's nowhere near enough for the 1.1 million people on the waiting list and the government's target of building 300,000 new homes a year.
and councils had few incentives to grant planning permission to developers.In 2001 only 175,000 new homes were built in the UK, the lowest level since the Second World War, and during the past ten years the number of new properties built was 12.5pc lower than during the previous decade.Ms...
The phrase "England faces a housing crisis" has "lost its power to shock" due to its overuse, the report says. It calls on the government to legislate for an independent body on housing - much like the Climate Change Committee, which advises on emission targe...
In an effort to tackle the UK housing crisis, IKEA employees will be trained as advocatesIn England, almost 2.5 million renters are either behind or struggling to pay their rent — that's an increase of 45% since April 2022. Aiming to address the UK's housing emergency through systemic cha...
Taking on the housing crisis — A group of local residents in Haringey, North London, are defying private property developers by bidding for an old hospital site that's for sale. Does this signal a new direction for housing activism in the capital? One that looks at the needs of a commun...
the capital. The research shows the crisis isn't limited to London either- any other cities, including Cambridge and Oxford, also have double-digit prices to earnings ratios. Across the UK as a whole, people now need on average six-and-a-halftimes their annual salary to buy their own ...
The homelessness crisis resulted in further intervention in homelessness, despite retrenchment in housing. Since 1997, New Labour has claimed to implement a Third Way in social policy. However, this has been limited in its distinctiveness from the Conservative era (rolling out neo-liberalism, ...
Labour leader Keir Starmer, however, has put the housing crisis at the top of his agenda. Speaking in Liverpool last month, Starmer promised to build ‘the next generation of new towns’ and will build 1.5 million houses in five years, tearing through the current planning system to make it...
economic crisishousing policytransitionsThe authors examine the housing pathways of young people in the UK in the years 1999 to 2008, and consider the changing nature of these pathways in the run up to 2020. They employ a highly innovative methodology, which begins with the identification and ...
Rising mortgage rates have been the dominant feature of the property market in the past two years, and a major contributor to the UK’s cost of living crisis. Loans issued during the era of ultra-low interest rates are now reaching the end of their terms, with 1.6mn households due to se...