Posts Tagged housing
Want to see a dramatic increase in homelessness? Just add rent control
Posted by Nick Cowen in Economics, Tax and Spend on 27/09/2011
A Guest post by Peter Morgan over at LeftFootForward offers a real blast from the past. He suggests introducing price controls on rental properties. His theory is that this will act as a simple transfer of wealth from property owners to renters (who spend more of their income), thus stimulating the economy far better than quantitative easing. Well-intentioned as this idea is, few other measures would be more likely to punish low-income renters.
Money for social housing can be found
Posted by Nick Cowen in Social Security, Tax and Spend on 19/10/2010
The £6 billion council house budget is likely to be one of the major casualties of this week’s spending review. The National Housing Federation has said it is expecting “doomsday” cuts that will severely slow down the construction of affordable housing. But there are a few ways of cutting this budget while saving housing construction, writes Carolina Bracken.