This report from UK think tank the Centre for London looks at how property licensing could better protect private renters. This report explores the potential of selective property licensing to improve conditions in London’s private rented sector. More than one million London households rent privately in order to live in the capital. With such high...

This report from UK think tank Bright Blue presents a new centre-right vision for housing. The housing situation in modern Britain is bleak. We struggle to build nearly as many homes as we have in past decades, real house prices are the highest in over a century, over two-thirds of renters have given up on...

This report from UK think tank the David Hume Institute looks at what Scotland's Land Information System is and why it matters. A new report, written by land reform expert Andy Wightman, commissioned jointly by the David Hume Institute and Built Environment Forum Scotland, says the lack of a fully functioning land and building information...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at Housing First for domestic abuse survivors. The number of people forced into homelessness by an abusive or violent partner has surged by almost a fifth since the pandemic. According to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between July and September...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Cities looks at the UK’s 4 million missing homes. Britain has a severe housing crisis, especially in the most prosperous places in the Greater South East. Across England, the average house costs more than ten times the average salary, vacancy rates are below 1 per cent,...

This report from UK think tank Localis looks at what percentage of private homes must be provided to produce the number of affordable public rental homes needed. Just short of 250,000 new council homes were built in 1953. Housing minister Harold MacMillan permitted local authorities to build as many homes as there were applicants on...

This report from UK think tank Bright Blue looks at key changes in government policy to increase housing supply and reduce carbon emissions from new homes. The UK is facing both a housing and climate crisis. We are not building enough homes. And the houses we do build are not green enough to support this...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies demolishes a series of longstanding and damaging myths about the British housing sector. As public debate about the housing and planning system grows, a new report from the Centre for Policy Studies demolishes a series of longstanding and increasingly damaging myths about the British...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at ensuring planning reform delivers affordable homes. A longstanding shortage of affordable housing is worsening the UK’s housing crisis. The Government’s proposal to level up affordable housing through a new ‘Infrastructure Levy’ is liable to make a bad situation worse. A safe, secure,...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Cities looks at the most frequently asked questions on planning reform. This report brings together answers to the most frequently asked questions on planning reform and what actions local and national government should be taking to tackle the root cause of the housing crisis and to...

This report from UK think tank CLES looks at the retrofit of social housing stock in the South of Scotland. This report explores the potential of registered social landlords (RSLs) taking the lead in delivering a just transition in Scotland. Analysis, conducted by IPPR, finds that, by using their influence to develop the retrofit supply...

This report from UK think tank the SMF argues that the real estate and investment sectors must put their theorisations about social value into practice. Social Value Roadmap for Real Estate sets out recommendations for how designers, developers, the financial services industry, and local and central government can work together to maximise social value within...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at reforming the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has responsibility for a number of functions that are currently performed inefficiently and represent poor value for taxpayer money; DLUHC should set strategy and draft...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at what the Truss government should learn from other countries. The government should do more to address the UK’s energy efficiency problems - or risk finding itself in an even more difficult position next year over rising energy bills. The report finds that the...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at how universities could do more to track and prevent homelessness amongst students. This report argues universities should do more to track and prevent homelessness among their students and could play a wider role in supporting efforts to end all forms of homelessness. It says universities have...