land – New thinking for the British economy https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:31:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.8 https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2016/09/cropped-oD-butterfly-32x32.png land – New thinking for the British economy https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net 32 32 Podcast: to rebalance Britain’s economy, we must rethink land and housing economics https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/podcast-property-is-theft-property-is-liberty-rethinking-land-and-housing-economics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podcast-property-is-theft-property-is-liberty-rethinking-land-and-housing-economics https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/podcast-property-is-theft-property-is-liberty-rethinking-land-and-housing-economics/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:55:08 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=792 Housing sucks up more of our income and more of our savings than anything else. It represents around 60% of Britain’s assets. From soaring homelessness to widening wealth inequality, the relationship between the British people and our homes is deeply troubled: you can’t understand the crisis in the UK economy without understanding what’s happened to

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]]> Housing sucks up more of our income and more of our savings than anything else. It represents around 60% of Britain’s assets. From soaring homelessness to widening wealth inequality, the relationship between the British people and our homes is deeply troubled: you can’t understand the crisis in the UK economy without understanding what’s happened to housing and land.

Toby Lloyd from Shelter, and Josh Ryan-Collins and Laurie Macfarlane from the New Economics Foundation have a new book out helping us get to grips with what’s gone wrong and how to fix it. I had a chat with Laurie in the NEF offices to find out more – enjoy.

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