(Drawing) Rings Around The World

The other day I agreed with noted urban thinker EconomistHulk that we should build more homes by densifying existing urban areas where the...

A variety of voices have spoken out recently about the UK's housing crisis, none more distinguished than @EconomistHulk , who addressed ...

The Chancellor yesterday announced that the government would set up a mortgage guarantee scheme to make it easier to buy a house. Unlike pr...

There's a school of thought which says that since people generally say they want big houses with gardens then that's what we should ...

Faisal Islam, Channel 4's excellent economics editor, tweeted this morning worth repeating fact I tweeted from last night while resear...

The fact that the Evening Standard's property section is now running features about "good-value homes within cycling distance of t...

Today's Census figures showing a fall in home ownership have excited plenty of comment about the struggles of so many people to get on ...

Update : Those intelligent people in the Intelligence team at the Greater London Authority have now made a better map of population change...

Paul Collier says that African cities should learn from the example of 19th century London when it comes to housing policy. London was abl...

Matt Yglesias has an excellent post here about the lovely city of Santa Monica, which prides itself on its greenness yet has seen barely an...

I was surprised a while back to find that the Liberal Democrat conference policy paper on housing included a call for a land value tax (LVT...

The Economist has an article about the sharp decline in crime in American cities since the early 1990s, noting that there is no consensus o...

Owen Hatherley asks why those of us with jobs are still working so much when we have so much labour-saving technology. He doesn't get a...

There has been a bit of a discussion going round about the link between home ownership rates and national prosperity - see  Marginal Revolut...

One of the frustrating things about discussing housing in this country is that we have historically lacked some key data which would allow u...

Prof Henry Overman of the LSE has some interesting thoughts on lessons for urban policy from Dani Rodrik's book ' The Globalization...

I've just finished reading Ryan Avent's book The Gated City, which UK readers can download for Kindle or PC/Mac reading here . Anyon...

Simon Jenkins attacks the NPPF again, and as before the effect is to make you wonder if it's such a bad idea after all. But I just want...

I've been reading Ryan Avent's new book The Gated City , and it provides some good arguments in favour of the point I was making ab...

Just a quick post to point anyone interested in housing and planning issues towards two people currently writing up a storm on these issues....