Thursday, 29 March 2018

Housing: the happy self-delusion of ‘no shortage’

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Posted by Paul Cheshire The assertion that there is no actual shortage of houses seems to be gaining, if not traction, then at least suppo...
Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Who benefits from neighbourhoods designated as conservation areas?

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Homeowners and people nearby benefit, though the implications for society are less clear, writes Gabriel Ahlfeldt Opinions on conservati...
Monday, 12 March 2018

Empty homes, longer commutes: the unintended consequences of more restrictive local planning

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Posted by Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber, and Hans Koster We have argued for a very long time that the fundamental problem with housing ...
Thursday, 19 October 2017

Distributive Politics Inside the City?

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Do local politicians target their voters when making policy decisions? In other words, did your mayor build that park next door to please ...
Tuesday, 29 August 2017

What’s happened to rents in London and the UK after the Brexit referendum? Evidence from a new rental index.

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Everyone talks about house prices – either rising or falling – as a vital indicator of local and national economic health, and a range of i...
Thursday, 27 July 2017

The Local Economic Impacts of Brexit

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I've been working with colleagues at the Centre for Economic Performance (Swati Dhingra and Steve Machin) and the Centre for Cities (Nao...
Monday, 22 May 2017

East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Neighbourhood Sorting

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Posted by Stephan Heblich (Bristol + SERC), Alex Trew (St Andrews) and Yanos Zylberberg (Bristol) “In Manchester [...] prevailing and st...