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Thursday, 23 June 2011

Affordability or amenity?

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Rowan Moore reads the new enormobook ' Living in the Endless City ' and fishes out a good quote: Suketu Mehta, on Mumbai, articula...
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UK house price to rent ratios aren't all that reliable

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The Economist has a nifty interactive resource showing trends in house prices and associated indicators for a bunch of countries. It includ...
Monday, 20 June 2011

Up with escalators

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Dave Hill has an interesting post about the potential impact of the Olympics on the prospects for regeneration in Newham. Here he quotes Si...
Friday, 17 June 2011

Snobbery and endogenous amenity

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Richard Florida observes the extraordinary price premium attached to apartments in central Manhattan, and argues that such a location is a...
Sunday, 5 June 2011

Property-owning democracy or home-having democracy?

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I'm fully on board with Andrew Rawnsley's call for more housing supply, but I question some of the assumptions he's making. F...
Saturday, 4 June 2011

Non-newsworthy people also affected by high housing costs

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Just to add to my last post , I find it frustrating that the expense and insecurity experienced by tenants in the private rented sector is o...
Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Not enough housing supply means rising housing costs

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The IPPR have published a report on housing bubbles and how to stop them, which along with a Halifax report on 'Generation Rent' h...
Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Cheap fuel is costly

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The BBC wants to know why Americans are so angry about petrol prices . Here's ' crossrider ' of the Cycalogical blog: The USA h...
Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Map of cars per household in London

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Somewhat related to yesterday's post, here is a map showing the average rate of cars per household across London. It's my first time...
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Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Spaces for cars, spaces for people

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At some point early in the previous decade, Britain reached what I think should be considered a significant landmark. The number of licensed...
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