UK’s Housing Crisis

Assorted on UK’s housing crisis

The ratio of median house prices to earnings in England hit 7.7 in 2016, its highest recorded level. In the past four decades house prices have grown by more in Britain than in any other G7 country. Home ownership has been falling for more than a decade, after rising for most of the past century. In London housing is outlandishly dear: before the Brexit vote sent the pound tumbling, it was the priciest city in the world for renters.

— How to solve Britain’s housing crisis

1. An affordable roof over our heads? Anna Minton discusses — OECD podcast
2. Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing with Josh Ryan-Collins

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THE STATE OF THE NATION’S HOUSING 2018