Housing

Garden villages: are we learning from the past?

Capturing land values to benefit local people was a key principle in the original garden cities. Will England’s new wave of garden villages follow suit?

Ebenezer Howard remains famous for championing garden cities. He proposed green cities to provide affordable homes and places to work and live more healthily than the slums of London.

Housing

Communities are innovating to fix the housing crisis

Housing Local Government

Councils can unlock diversity in housing supply

Housing

Benefit cap makes large parts of UK unaffordable

Good Local Economics Housing

Can people power solve the housing crisis?

Housing

Never mind custom build, where’s the support for community build?

Communities Housing Regeneration

It’s time for a ‘Right to Regenerate’ for sink estates

Housing

Lifetime tenancies, to keep or not to keep?

Housing

Three ways to give young Londoners more control over housing

Almost half of all Londoners aged 18-24 who don’t currently own a home don’t believe they ever will. And they are supposed to be the most optimistic – polling shows that the older you get, the less likely you are to feel that getting on the housing ladder is possible. In a city so full of opportunity and possibility, something is badly wrong in London when people see their ambitions curtailed so early in their lives.